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It was afterwards made with flake white or dry white lead ground in turps only and mixed with the polishing copal varnish with the addition of tints as required, by which means a white of any required character could be produced." Authorities state that these may be formed from bright Prussian blue or verditer glazed over with Prussian blue or of smalt.
Blue verditer, and white of any sort, well ground. Light Green. Pink, smalt, and white. Another. Blue verditer and gamboge. Another. Gamboge and verdigris. This is chiefly used for the ground colours of trees, fields, &c. Lion Tawney. Red lead and masticot, shaded with umber. Murrey. Lake and white lead. Orange. Red lead and a little masticot, shaded with umber. Orange Tawney.
Of these there are no less than twenty-six species, the most remarkable being the fairy blue-chat, which is brilliantly marked with different shades of glistening blue, and another which is strikingly coloured in almost uniform verditer blue.
But, we must bear in mind that a bird that behaves thus is not necessarily a flycatcher. Other birds, as, for example, king-crows and bee-eaters, have discovered how excellent a way this is of securing a good supply of food. The plumage of this flycatcher is pale blue blue of that peculiar shade known as verditer blue. There is a little black on the head.
Lake and flake white, shaded with carmine; bistre and vermilion shaded with black. Changeable Silk. Red lead and masticot water, shaded with sap-green and verdigris. Another. Lake and yellow, shaded with lake and Prussian blue. Cloud Colour. Light masticot, or lake and white, shaded with blue verditer. Another. Constant white and Indian ink, and a little vermilion. Another.
By bright Prussian blue possibly a genuine Prussian blue toned down to a sky blue with white lead is meant, and by verditer the variety known as refiners' blue verditer, and as to smalt it must not be forgotten that it changes its colour in artificial light.
White, with a little lake and blue verditer, make a good cloud colour for that part next the horizon. Crimson. Lake and white, with a little vermilion, shaded with lake and carmine. Flame Colour. Vermilion and orpiment, heightened with white. Another. Gamboge, shaded with minium and red lead. Flesh Colour. Ceruse, red lead, and lake, for a swarthy complexion, and yellow ochre. Another.
Another beautiful bird of the parrot tribe was the Geoffroyus cyanicollis, a green parrot with a red bill and head, which colour shaded on the crown into azure blue, and thence into verditer blue and the green of the back.
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