or, rather, of a number of young mocking-birds, tlie 

 photographs ivere colored by him, and the plates 

 from these photographs were printed in color. The 

 variety of rare tints in any bird's plufnage, their 

 extreme delicacy, and the infinitely fine gradations 

 of shading have almost always baffled the artist 

 and the printer. 'The present atte?npt to reproduce 

 Mr. Dugmore's masterly pi^ures in color shows at 

 Uast a handsome advance in the difficidt art. 



Charles Day Lanier. 



Ofiober, 1899. 



