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is laid on, which is a pale straw colour, a neutral tint may be made
of lake, indigo, and a little raw umber; the latter colour is added to
give warmth to the tint, and make it accord with the ground. All the
shadows and marking on the large and small wings are stippled on in
small lines, without any previous wash; thus the whole has an appear-
ance of fine down or hair. The rings are sormed in the same way.
The red spots are angular figures ; they are sormed with a dark tint
of lake and burnt sienna, over which is worked the neutral tint, to
soften and blend them into the light yellow. The body is sormed with
alternate rings of blue and lake washed into each other; the shadowing
is given with the stipple, and is well expressed in the print. The
larger butterssy, with dark wings, will require a greater variety os
colour, which may be laid on in a ssat tint, and afterwards stippled up
as on the subject just described.
Humming birds are so varied in size and colour, that Busson de-
scribes not less than sixty species, srom the size os a small wren down
to that os a bee. It is dissicult sor a European to sorm an idea of
birds so very small, and yet completely formed with a bill, feathers,
wings, and intestines, exactly resembling those of the largest birds.
" A bird not so big as the end of one's little singer would probably be
supposed but a creature of the imagination, were they not seen in
insinite numbers in a summer day in the fields os America, sporting
from ssower to ssower, and extracting their sweets with its little bill.
The smallest humming bird weighs no more than twenty grains. The
feathers on its wings and tail are a violet brown; those on its body
is laid on, which is a pale straw colour, a neutral tint may be made
of lake, indigo, and a little raw umber; the latter colour is added to
give warmth to the tint, and make it accord with the ground. All the
shadows and marking on the large and small wings are stippled on in
small lines, without any previous wash; thus the whole has an appear-
ance of fine down or hair. The rings are sormed in the same way.
The red spots are angular figures ; they are sormed with a dark tint
of lake and burnt sienna, over which is worked the neutral tint, to
soften and blend them into the light yellow. The body is sormed with
alternate rings of blue and lake washed into each other; the shadowing
is given with the stipple, and is well expressed in the print. The
larger butterssy, with dark wings, will require a greater variety os
colour, which may be laid on in a ssat tint, and afterwards stippled up
as on the subject just described.
Humming birds are so varied in size and colour, that Busson de-
scribes not less than sixty species, srom the size os a small wren down
to that os a bee. It is dissicult sor a European to sorm an idea of
birds so very small, and yet completely formed with a bill, feathers,
wings, and intestines, exactly resembling those of the largest birds.
" A bird not so big as the end of one's little singer would probably be
supposed but a creature of the imagination, were they not seen in
insinite numbers in a summer day in the fields os America, sporting
from ssower to ssower, and extracting their sweets with its little bill.
The smallest humming bird weighs no more than twenty grains. The
feathers on its wings and tail are a violet brown; those on its body