. Animate creation : popular edition of "Our living world" : a natural history. Zoology; Zoology. THE TWELVE-THREAD EPIMAOHVS. 147 in ultramaiine, caraiine, and gold, wovdd "pale and distorted fonn of the stuffed bird. Yet that fails egregiously in reproducing the bird as it was who has visited a museum. Putting aside the inevitable shrinking and legs, and claws, which change from their natural black parchment, the feathers always present an no taxidermist whose hand, be it ever so skilful, their ineffectual fires" even before the stiff very stuffed semblance of the living
. Animate creation : popular edition of "Our living world" : a natural history. Zoology; Zoology. THE TWELVE-THREAD EPIMAOHVS. 147 in ultramaiine, caraiine, and gold, wovdd "pale and distorted fonn of the stuffed bird. Yet that fails egregiously in reproducing the bird as it was who has visited a museum. Putting aside the inevitable shrinking and legs, and claws, which change from their natural black parchment, the feathers always present an no taxidermist whose hand, be it ever so skilful, their ineffectual fires" even before the stiff very stuffed semblance of the living creature during life, as every one must have observed darkening of the soft parts about the head, forms into dry and shrivelled pieces of dull, unsightly staring appearance; and there is can give to the stuffed creature the exquisite. TWELVE-THKEAD EPIMACHUS.—AWe«ri(/eji niger. swell and rounding of the various parts, and that air and carriage of the body which is S9 indicative of the character. Not only is this the case mth the stuffed bird, but immediately after death the plumage loses half its beauty; for during its lifetime the bird is able, by smoothing or ruflling its plumage, to give to its form a vast, variety of expressions, which sink in death to one listless aspect, which tells that life has fled. The very respiration of the bird keeps the feathers in continual motion, causing them to change their tints wdth every breath. Such being the case, even with the recently slain bird or the preserved skin, it may well be imagined that no artist is sufficiently skilful to delineate, no artificial color sufficiently brp- iant to reproduce, and no pen sufficiently accomplished to describe, the glowing tints with any degree of success, when the drawings and the descriptions are compared with the living Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illu
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