Bird - Lore 



TREE SWALLOW PLAYING WITH A FEATHER 

 Note the detail with which the feathers of the wing are drawn 



Mr. Brandreth has certainly not detracted from the beauty of his figures 

 of birds by giving them their due allotment of feathers ; he has thereby greatly 

 increased their charm to the bird student who is as much pained by a picture 

 of a five-primaried Swallow as he would be by that of a two-fingered man. 



But Mr. Brandreth is something more than a gifted and accurate drawer of 

 birds. Among artists of his class his pictures show that he has already attained 

 an unusual measure of success in placing his bird in the landscape, or perhaps I 

 should say in placing landscape about his bird. 



The purposes of scientific illustration to aid in the identification of the 



