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in red, in others it will be green. We are told, 

 however, that this is all right and they both are 

 right ; this is something of a mystery and passes 

 my own comprehension. The view is certainly 

 possible that these ancient artists never thought 

 any future race of mankind would come worrying 

 round to know what particular specific kind of 

 bird was meant, they alone desiring to give a 

 rendering of a typical Hawk. 



Honestly admiring the fine work of these old 

 artists, I yet retain my own liberty to point out 

 what is wrong, and the accompanying illustrations 

 show a very glaring error which is repeated over 

 and over again, a thousand times, throughout the 

 temples and tombs of the country. Fig. 3 shows 

 the two wings of a painted hawk at Karnak ; the 

 right wing shows the outside, the left the inside 

 of the wing. In the right wing the feathers are 

 shown with their front edge lapping over the hind 

 edge of the feather next in front. This gives a 

 certain strength to the whole surface of the wing- 

 area needed for flight, and if that be an accurate 

 representation of the outside of a Hawk's wing 

 in nature, and it is, then it follows that the inside 

 surface would show the reverse ; that is to say, 

 the free edge of each feather would show over- 



