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birds will appreciate the clever rendering of the colours 

 of the Suu-birds and Humming-birds — though I have 

 seen it better done at the Academy. As a painting, 

 this is a rather clever work, and for its technical 

 merits deserves the place given to it. 



In No. 367, " Preparing for Work : Winter," by 

 Claude Hayes, the Rooks introduced are poorly drawn 

 and in colour they look almost like blue birds, but 

 they are not so bad as many one sees in pictures by 

 figure or landscape painters. 



In No. 373 the Gulls are well in keeping with the 

 landscape, but rather too small to criticise from the 

 ornithological point of view. Of No. 380 much the 

 same may be said. 



The other bird picture by Peter Graham (No. 

 495), " Lonely Sea Cliffs where the Gannet finds a 

 Home," is as characteristic of his work as the first 

 one. The same elements show— the well painted rocks, 

 sea, and atmospheric effects, and the poorly drawn 

 birds. Considering how easy it is to obtain good 

 photographs of Gannets in their native haunts, I 

 cannot help regretting that the artist has not spent a 

 little more time on the study of the birds themselves, 

 as he would then have remedied the one defect in his 

 picture. The colour in this work, even in the birds, is 

 good. 



The picture by the distinguished horse-painter, 

 John Charlton, " Abandoned " (No. 499) has some 

 Grey or Hooded Crows in it, and in this case, as in so 

 many others, the general idea of movement is well 

 carried out, but the drawing and want of finish of 

 the birds are out of keeping with the rest of the 

 picture. 



A Rook appears in J. W. Waterhouse's "Boreas" 

 No. 618), fairly well drawn (though so rough in 



