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Title: Disappointing
Review: I'm referring to the 1986 edition here, and perhaps later editions have resolved what seems to me a problem - too many of the illustrations (about half) are in black and white, and the descriptions on the pages facing them are not too helpful. A page labelled 'Hairstreaks, Coppers, Blues and Giant Skippers' faces a page of black-and-white illustrations; the only hint as to what color any of these butterflies may actually be is next to the one named Ferris's Copper: "duller, more grayish than that of Ruddy Copper." Ruddy Copper itself is indeed illustrated in color - 10 pages earlier. If I'm following some butterfly around, trying to identify it, it will certainly proceed to another yard before I can find a helpful color illustration of a similar butterfly or refer to the fuller descriptions in the front and back of the book. I'm not in this to catch them, just to see if I can figure out what's flying through here.
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