COLOUR. 



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emerald green and ash grey). Animal, vent coverts of the 

 golden crested wren; vegetable, polyanthus, narcissus: 

 mineral, calc. sinter (forms the transition of white into 

 green). 



7. Skimmed milk white (snow white, mixed with a little 

 Berlin blue and ash grey). Animal, white of the human 

 eye-ball ; vegetable, back of the petals of the blue hepatica; 

 mineral, common opal. 



8. Greyish white (snow white, mixed with a little ash 

 grey). Animal, inside quill feathers of the kittiwake ; 

 vegetable, white Hamburgh grapes ; mineral, granular lime 

 stone. 



9. Ash grey the characteristic colour (snow white, with 

 portions of smoke and French grey, and a very little yellowish 

 grey and carmine red). Animal, breast of long-tailed hen 

 titmouse ; vegetable, fresh wood ashes ; mineral, flint. 



10. Smoke grey (ash grey, mixed with a little brown). 

 Animal, breast of the robin round the red portion . . 

 mineral, flint. 



11. French grey (greyish white, with a slight tinge of 

 black and carmine red). Animal, breast of the pied wag- 

 tail. . . . 



12. Pearl grey (ash grey, mixed with a little crimson red 

 and blue, or bluish grey with a little red). Animal, backs 

 of the black-headed and kittiwake gulls ; vegetable, back of 

 petals of purple hepatica ; mineral, porcelain jasper. 



13. Yellowish grey (ash grey mixed with lemon yellow, 

 and a minute portion of brown). Vegetable, stems of the 

 barberry ; mineral, common calcedony. 



14. Bluish grey (ash grey mixed with a little blue). 

 Animal, back and tail-coverts of the wood pigeon; mineral, 

 limestone. 



15. Greenish grey (ash grey mixed with a little emerald 

 green, a small portion of black and a little lemon yellow ) 

 Animal, quill feathers of the robin ; vegetable, bark of ash 

 tree ; mineral, clay-slate wacke. 



16. Blackish grey (ash grey with a little blue, and a por- 

 tion of black). Animal, back of nuthatch ; vegetable, old 

 stems of hawthorn ; mineral, flint. 



III. BLACKS. 



17. Greyish black (velvet black with a portion of ash 

 grey). Animal, breast and upper part of the back of the 

 water hen ; mineral, basalt. 



18. Bluish black (velvet black, mixed with a little blue 

 and blackish grey). Animal, largest black slug ; vegetable, 

 crowberry ; mineral, black cobalt. 



19. Greenish black (velvet black, mixed with a little 

 brown yellow and green). Animal, breast of the lapwing; 

 mineral, hornblende. 



20. Pitch or brownish black (velvet black, mixed with a 

 little brown and yellow). Animal, guillemot, wing-coverts of 

 the black cock. 



21. Reddish black (velvet black, mixed with a very little 

 carmine red, and a small portion of chestnut brown). Animal, 

 spots on the wings of the tiger moth, breast of the pochard 

 duck; vegetable, berry of the fuchsia coccinea; mineral, 

 olivine ore. 



22. Ink black (velvet black, with a little indigo blue in 

 it). Vegetable, berry of the deadly nightshade ; mineral, oliviue 

 ore. 



23. Velvet black (the characteristic colour of the blacks, 

 colour of black velvet). Animal, mole, tail-feathers of the 

 black cock ; vegetable, black of red and black West Indian 

 peas ; mineral, obsidian. 



IV. BLUES. 



24. Scotch blue (Berlin blue, mixed with a considerable 

 portion of velvet black, a very little grey and a slight tinge 

 of carmine red). Animal, throat of the blue titmouse; 



vegetable, stamina of single purple anemone; mineral, blue 

 copper ore. 



25. Prussian blue (Berlin blue, with a considerable portion 

 of velvet black, and a small quantity of indigo blue). Animal, 

 beauty spot on wing of the mallard drake ; vegetable, stamina 

 of bluish purple anemone; mineral, blue copper ore. 



26. Indigo blue (Berlin blue, a little black, and a small 

 portion of apple green). . . . Mineral, blue copper ore. 



27. China blue (azure blue, with a little Prussian blue in 

 it). Animal, rynchites nitens ; vegetable, back parts of 

 gentian flowers ; mineral, blue ore from Chessy. 



28. Azure blue (Berlin blue, with a little carmine red). 

 Animal, breast of the emerald-crested manakin ; vegetable, 

 grape, hyacinth, gentian ; mineral, blue copper ore. 



29. Ultramarine blue (equal parts of Berlin and azure 

 blue). Animal, upper side of the wings of small blue heath 

 butterfly ; vegetable, borage ; mineral, azure stone or lapis 

 lazuli. 



30. Flax-flower blue (Berlin blue, with a slight tinge of 

 ultramarine blue). Animal, light parts of the margin of the 

 wings of devil's butterfly; vegetable, flax flower; mineral, 

 blue copper ore. 



31. Berlin blue (the pure or characteristic colour of 

 Werner). Animal, wing feathers of the jay; vegetable, 

 bepatica ; mineral, blue sapphire. 



32. Verditter blue (Berlin blue, with a small portion of 

 verdigris green) Mineral, lenticular ore. 



33. Greenish blue, the sky blue of Werner (Berlin blue, 

 white, and a little emerald green). . . . Vegetable, 

 great fennel flower; mineral, turquois, some fluor spar. 



34. Greenish blue, the small blue of Werner (Berlin blue 

 with white, a small quantity of grey, and a hardly perceptible 

 portion of red). Animal, back of blue titmouse; vegetable, 

 small fennel flower ; mineral, iron earth. 



v. PURPLES. 



35. Bluish lilac purple (bluish purple and white). Vegetable, 

 blue lilac ; mineral, lepidolite. 



36. Bluish purple (equal parts of Berlin blue and carmine 

 red). Animal, azure blue butterfly ; vegetable, parts of white 

 and purple crocus. 



37. Violet purple, violet blue of Werner (Berlin blue, 

 mixed with red and a little brown). . . . Vegetable, 

 purple aster; mineral, amethyst. 



38. Pansy purple (indigo blue, with carmine red and a 

 slight tinge of raven black). Animal, chrysomela Goetcin- 

 gcnsia ; vegetable, sweet-scented violet ; mineral, Derbyshire 

 spar. 



39. Campanula purple, the characteristic colour (equal 

 parts of ultramarine blue and carmine red). . . . Vegeta- 

 ble, Canterbury bell, campanula persicifolia ; mineral, fluor 

 spar. 



40. Imperial purple (azure and indigo blue, with carmine 

 red, about equal parts of each). . . . Vegetable, deep 

 parts of flower of saffron crocus; mineral, fluorspar. 



41. Auricula purple (plum purple, with indigo blue and 

 much carmine red). Animal, egg of largest bluebottle or 

 ilesh fly ; vegetable, largest auricula; mineral, fluor spar. 



42. Plum purple, the plum blue of Werner (Berlin blue, 

 with much carmine red, a very little brown, and an almost 

 imperceptible portion of black). . . . Vegetable, plum ; 

 mineral, fluor spar. 



43. Red lilac purple (campanula purple, with a conside- 

 rable portion of snow white, and a very little carmine red). 

 Animal, light spots of the upper wings of the peacock but- 

 terfly ; vegetable, red lilac, pale purple primrose ; mineral, 

 lepidolite. 



44 Lavender purple, the lavender blue of Werner (blue 

 red, and a little brown and groy). Animal, light parts of the 

 spots on the under wings of the peacock butterfly ; vegetable, 

 dried lavender flowers ; mineral, porcelain jasper. 



45. Pale blackish purple (lavender puiple, mixed with a 



little red and black) mineral, porcelain 



jasper. 



