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prising brilliancy, or bounded one by another so as 
to exhibit the exact tracery of patterns, not ex- 
ceeded in precision by the multiplied reflections of 
the kaleidoscope, or the repeated impression of the 
same block or cylinder of the calico printer, by the 
lithographer, by the copper-plate graver and presser, 
or by the typography of the printer. The common 
robin, goldfinch, and bullfinch, and redstart, exhibit 
familiar instances of strikingly contrasted colours. 
The black and white woodpecker, with a scarlet 
poll and vent, and the green woodpecker, and the 
kingfisher, exhibit contrasts of yet more brilliant 
hues. The black lines on the white cheek of the 
maccaw appear to be stamped on either side by the 
same block: but the common pheasant, the argus 
pheasant, the peacock, and the tail-feathers of the 
menura, may be selected as the most striking speci- 
mens of exact patterns accurately repeated, the left 
side corresponding with the right amongst birds. 
Amongst insects of all kinds such instances are in- 
numerable: the peacock butterfly, the phaleena Caia, 
or great tiger moth, the sphinx filipendule, the pha- 
lena pavonia, the chrysis ignita, the silpha vespillo, 
may be named at random as the most familiar, al- 
though falling far short of the magnificent insects of 
Asia, Africa, and of South America, in beauty, or 
wonderful diversity of tracery. The tiger and leo- 
pard, many of the squirrel kind, the fallow-deer, the 
camelopardalis, the zebra, are sufficient examples of 
the same kind amongst mammalia”. The spectacles 
b It is especially worthy of observation, that each hair of the 
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