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Identifier: birdsofbible00stra (find matches)
Title: Birds of the Bible
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Stratton-Porter, Gene, 1863-1924
Subjects: Nature in the Bible
Publisher: Cincinnati, Jennings and Graham New York, Eaton and Mains
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)ortantplace birds always have occupied in history than the factthat one of the oldest pictures in the world has birds asits subject. It is a fragnuiit of a fresco taken from atoml) at Maydoon, and now in the nuiseum at Cairo. Thispicture was painted three thousand yiars before Christand near two thousand years before the time of Moses.Six geese are represented, four of which are so accuratilydoiu, and in all those cycKs the change in species is so
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s TIIK T1:MK (>.5 small, that they readily can be classitiecl as the ancestorsof two species known to-day. Later the paintings, frescoes, and sculptures of Ko-yptand Assyria were filled with ))ird figures, but the workwas so poorly done, or else the birds so stiffly convention-alized, that it is a difficult matter to decide whetlier tluyare eagles, hawks, or vultures. All of these abounded, andwell might have been used in symbol writing to portraystrength, endurance, penetration, or ra))acity. Artists of to-day arc setting ornithologists the samestudy. They attem))t to illustrate articles with drawingsof birds, without having seen a naked and ofttimes noliving bird of the species, and so proper contour islost. Knowing absolutely nothing of anatomy, habits,or characteristics, they attem))t to re))ro(luce birds andmake amazing caricatures. In the first ))lace, manyartists go to nuiseums and draw from a dried skinstretched over a wire frame and stuffed. They mightequally as well attem

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