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Beaded Black T^it-Moufcy Page 21, are his Hoitzillirii Vol. 1 . Page 97, and his MexU 
tan Chichiltofgtl, Vol. I. Page 96. My Black-headed Indian Idlerus^ Page 77, is his 
Vcotzinitzcany Vol. 1 . Page 97. I have alfo, I believe, two or three Birds of Peti~ 
ver figured and defcribed in Rays Synopfis Method. Avium ; but his Figures are fo 
mean, and the Defcription fo very brief, that I can determine nothing certain, whe¬ 
ther I have figured them or not, fo I fhall not point them out. 
- For the Amufement of the Curious of either Sex, and to fulfil a Promife to fomc 
particular Ladies, I have here inferted a Receipt of the Manner of making Pictures 
of Birds with their Natural' Feathers. 
Firfi; take a thin Board, or Pannel of Deal, or Wainfcot well feafoned, that it 
may not fhrink, then fmoothly pafiie on it white Paper, and let it dry; and if the 
Wood cafts its Colour through, you may pafie on a fecond Paper, and it will be 
whiter: Let the fecond Paper dry, then get ready any Bird that you would reprefent, 
and draw it as exa( 9 : as ma,y be on your paper’d Pannel, of its Natural Size, (middle- 
fized Birds are beft for this Work) then paint what Ground-work, or Tree, or 
other Thing, you defign to fet your Bird on, together with the Bill and Legs of the 
Bird in Water-Colours, leaving the Bird to be covered with its own Natural Fea¬ 
thers. You mufi; firft prepare the Part to be feather’d, by laying on pretty thick 
Gum Arabic^ dilfolved in Water, with a large Hair Pencil; then lay the Pannel fiat, and 
let it dry hard, and when dry cover it with your Gum-Water a fecond Time, and let it 
dry, and then a third, in cafe you do not find it lie with a good Body on the Paper; the 
Thicknefs of a Shilling, when dried hard, is fufficient: When your Piece is thus pre¬ 
pared, take the Feathers off from your Bird, as you ufe them, beginning always at 
the Tail, and Points of the Wing, and working upwards to the Head, obferving to 
cover that Part of your Draught with the Feather, that you take from the fame Part 
in your Bird, letting them fall one over another in their natural Order 1 you muft 
prepare your Feathers by cutting off the downy Pa^t that is about their Bottoms; and 
the larger Feathers mufi; have the Infides of their Shafts fiiaved off' with a Knife to 
make them lie flat; the Quills of the Wings muft have their inner Webs clipped of, 
that in laying them the Gum may hold them by their Shafts. When you begin to 
lay them, take a Pair of Steel Pliers to hold the Feathers in, and have fome Gum- 
Water, not too thin, and a large Pencil ready to moiften the gum’d Ground-work 
by little and little as you work it, then lay your Feathers on the moiften’d Parts, 
which mufi: not be waterifii, but fomething tacky or clammy to hold the Feathers, 
You fhould prepare a Parcel of fmall leaden Weights, in the form of Sugar-Loaves, 
which you may cafi; in Sand, by firfi: making Holes in its Surface with a pointed 
Stick : Thefe Weights will be neceffary to fet on the Feathers you have newly layed 
on to hold them to the Gum, till they are dry and fixed; but you muft be cautious 
leafi; the Gum come through the Feathers, for it not only fmears them, but dries to 
the Bottoms of the Weights, and you will be apt to puli - off the Feathers with the 
Weights, which will diforder your Work: When you have wholly covered your 
Bird with Feathers, you mufi; with a little thick Gum flick on a Piece of Paper cut 
round, of the Bignefs, and in the Place of the Eye, which you mufi colour like the Eye 
of the Bird. When the whole is dry, drefs the Feathers round the Out-line that may 
chance to flare a little, and rectify what may be mended in any other Part; then lay a 
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