THE KESTREL Q7 
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- 
