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" The graceful elegance displayed by this charming species when sailing on the wing, is greater perhaps than can be found in any other we have in Britain. "
Lepidoptera Britannica;: sistens digestionem novam insectorum Lepidopterorum ... - Side 18
af Adrian Hardy Haworth - 1803 - 609 sider
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The Naturalist's Library, Bind 3

Sir William Jardine - 1835 - 418 sider
...gracefulness of their flight. " The graceful elegance displayed by this charming species," says Mr Haworth, " when sailing on the wing, is greater perhaps than can be found in any other we have in Britain." " In its beautiful flight," says another writer, "when it skims aloft, it rivals the Purple Emperor,...
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Beautiful butterflies; the British species described and illustrated

Henry Gardiner Adams - 1854 - 90 sider
...the wing, have been struck with the peculiar grace of its movements. Thus the Rev. Mr. Haworth, says, "The graceful elegance displayed by this charming species when sailing on the wing, is perhaps greater than can be found in any other we have in Britain." And the Eev. Everett Sheppard tells...
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The Butterflies of Great Britain, with Their Transformations, Delineated and ...

John Obadiah Westwood - 1855 - 236 sider
...abundantly in woods near Winchester ; also a specimen in the Isle of Wight." (Kev. WT Bree, MSS.) " The graceful elegance displayed by this charming species...highly delighted at the inimitable flight of Camilla (Sibilla), that long after he was unable to pursue her he used to go to the woods and sit down on a...
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The Church of England quarterly review

1855 - 528 sider
...retired places, such as woodland depths, where the sun only gleams in at intervals. Haworth says — " The graceful elegance displayed by this charming species...London so highly delighted at the inimitable flight of the Camilla,* that * The classical reader will be reminded by this name, in connection with grace of...
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The World of Insects: A Guide to Its Wonders

John William Douglas - 1856 - 266 sider
...old collectors called L. Sybilla) fly will willingly testify to the truth of Haworth's remark, that " the graceful elegance displayed by this charming species...than can be found in any other we have in Britain." Haworth adds, " There was an old Aurelian of London so highly delighted at the inimitable flight of...
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British Butterflies

James Duncan - 1860 - 438 sider
...gracefulness of their flight. " The graceful elegance displayed by this charmmg species," says Mr Haworth, " when sailing on the wing, is greater perhaps than can be found in any other we have in Britain." " In its beautiful flight," says another writer, " when it skims aloft, it rivals the Purple Emperor,...
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Beautiful Butterflies: Described and Illustrated with the History of a ...

Henry Gardiner Adams - 1871 - 194 sider
...wing, have been struck with the peculiar grace of its movements. Thus the Rev. Mr. Haworth says, " The graceful elegance displayed by this charming species when sailing on the wing, is perhaps greater than can be found in any other we have in Britain." And the Rev. Everett Sheppard tells...
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Essex Naturalist: Being the Journal of the Essex Field Club, Bind 5–6

1891 - 582 sider
...oak-trunks. Imago — June and July ; hibernates as larva. Rare, every year becoming more so ; in woods. " The graceful elegance displayed by this charming species when sailing on the wing is greater perhaps than ran be found in any other we have in Britain. There was an old Aurelian of London, so highly delighted...
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A Hand-book to the Order Lepidoptera, Del 1

William Forsell Kirby - 1896 - 484 sider
...Its flight is sustained, but not very lofty. Haworth (" Lepidoptera Britannica," p. 30) remarks: " The graceful elegance displayed by this charming species...London, so highly delighted at the inimitable flight of P. camilla that long after he was unable to pursue her, he used to go to the woods, and sit down on...
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