University of Minnesota Press. The 2020 U.S. census confirmed that there were 10,049 married identical-intercourse couple households (4,240 male couples and 5,809 female couples) and 7,808 unmarried identical-sex couple households in Minnesota. 3. This gradual change from north to south of black, or purple and black to darkish pink cocks, and farther south to bright red cocks is accompanied (speaking very broadly, for there are lots of exceptions) by a lack of the white terminal borders which characterise the feathers of the abdomen. Polyommatus Bæticus.-The Long-TAILED BLUE.-This Butterfly has been long identified, as a southern insect, with a really big selection of distribution, abounding in the south of Europe and thence extending into India, Java, &c. There may be little question that the blacker birds of the Highlands of the north of Scotland are extra continuously white noticed beneath than the birds obtained farther south. After the third skin change, they’re without the black dots, and the colour is then pretty much that of the mature caterpillar, which is green, quite whitish on the back, and with a dark inexperienced central line; a collection of seven creamy oblique stripes alongside the sides, and on the sides of the first three rings there’s a whitish stripe damaged on the divisions; these markings are sometimes edged with darkish green; on the eleventh ring there is a somewhat horn-like prominence, striped with creamy white, and under it a yellow stripe; the spiracles are white, ringed with black.
In a common approach the fore wings of the male could also be described as purplish gray, suffused with rosy or with tawny shades; a reddish cloud, black marked above, at the ideas of the wings; the outer margins are roughly whitish, and there’s a whitish patch concerning the center of each wing, in which is an eyed spot; the hind wings are tawny, with a central eye spot and a blackish band towards the outer margin. This species has the fore wings of the male brownish clouded and suffused with ochreous; there’s a white patch at the base, and a few white marks together with three spots in direction of the apex, on the outer marginal area; two black cross traces, the first inwardly and the second outwardly, edged with white; the area between the strains is sometimes clouded with whitish, and there’s an virtually central black -shaped mark. The female is far bigger in dimension, with out ochreous suffusion on the fore wings, and the hind wings have the ground color whitish.
Beneath, its plan of colouring is completely distinct from that of any of our native “Blues” (Polyommati), being destitute of the numerous little eye-like spots, that are replaced by bands of fawn color and white; but at the decrease angle of the hind wings are two spots of glittering metallic green, reminding one, on a small scale, of the “eye” of a peacock’s feather. Or, one might say that in passing from the north of Scotland southward and westward, there may be an increasing tendency to the shiny pink and dark pink forms of Grouse, which culminate in the very characteristically brilliant purple chicken of Wales and of the Midlands of England, during which the predominating color of the feathers of the breast and beneath components typically is pink with superb broken black cross-strains, while these cross-strains are generally virtually absent. There is some variation within the ornamentation; sometimes the white markings are of large measurement, or, then again, could also be almost or quite obscured. Still, there are other, more instructive precedents. 1118; there seems to be a slight predominance of the w̯ worth for w, however no systematic distinction is made between the sounds, whole pages regularly occurring, e.g., in w.m., the place ỽ is used completely for each.