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PROFESSOR OWEN 
CH. IV. 
Br. d' E^ifer, whose picture of “ Christ Delivering 
the Souls out of Purgatory ” is in the same collec- 
tion. There is the same light falling on the upper 
branches — an effect which I saw in the beautiful 
park of the Palace at the Hague — the same 
exquisite little goldfinches, not a bit better than 
in ours, perching on the branches in the picture 
of Paradise, in which the Adam and Eve are by 
Rubens. In another of Breughel's the foreground 
is separated from the background by the same 
oblique hard hedge, and the distance has the same 
kind of city and canal in the same clear, cold, 
grey-blue tint. I was delighted to have so many 
confirmations of the value of our gem. I was 
told, however, that good prices, as loo/. to 500/., 
were only given for joint pictures, in which the 
figures and composition were by another master ; 
and that Breughel, when left to himself, as in most 
of his pictures and ours, failed from his want of 
taste in grouping and effect. There are only two, 
not joint-pictures, of his in the gallery. . . . What 
do you think I espied in a dark corner } Why, a 
DODO— a dodo in full plumage. Note that he 
(the artist or the dodo, which you please) lived 
between 1576 and 1639. He was contemporary 
with the man whom Natural History describes as 
having brought the stuffed dodo from Mauritius. 
The nostrils are very far forwards, as in the 
apteryx, and the feet very similar in the relative 
position and size of the toes. I took a sketch ; 
