This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1872 edition. Excerpt: ...forest roads in company with a few Progne and Comma, and is of similar habits. It is deeper colored than its allies and the black markings are of greater extent, making it a conspicuous species. It is usually seen alighted on the ground, and although alert and quick in its motions, may be captured without ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1872 edition. Excerpt: ...forest roads in company with a few Progne and Comma, and is of similar habits. It is deeper colored than its allies and the black markings are of greater extent, making it a conspicuous species. It is usually seen alighted on the ground, and although alert and quick in its motions, may be captured without difficulty. The species is also common in the Adirondacks and White Mountains, and probably throughout the northern part of the continent. I have received it from Fort Simpson and from Rupert House, Hudson's Bay, and also from Nova Scotia. GRAPTA COMMA. 1--6. Grapta Comma, Harris, Ins. Mass. C-album, Fitch, New York Reports, 1856. Male. Expands 2.3 inches. Primaries deeply incised; hind margins slightly dentated; a broad tail of medium length on middle of secondaries. Upper side bright fulvous; primaries have a black marginal band of medium width, dilated at apex, edged within by a series of pale yellow spots; on inner margin a ferruginous patch joins the marginal band, -a similar sub-apical patch on costa; on costal margin a broad sub-rectangular black patch; within the cell two small rounded black spots transverse, and at right angles to these three others in the submedian and first and second median interspaces; costal edges of both wings, and the incision of inner margin of primaries, sprinkled with black and yellow or pale fulvous. Secondaries have the outer limb deep ferruginous and the rest of wing to base mottled with ferruginous and fulvous; a sub-marginal series of small yellow lunules; on costal margin a large, elongated black spot, another of small size at base of first sub-costal nervule and a third at base of second median; fringe of both wings fuscous, whitish in the emarginations; the margins themselves narrowly edged with...
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