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Monarch Butterfly (Danaus plexippus)
Hand-colored engraving after John Abbot
From: James Edward Smith, The Natural History of the Rarer Lepidopterous Insects of Georgia…. Vol. 1 of 2 (London, 1797)
NYPL, Rare Books Division

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