Robert Ridgway

PREFACE

CONTENTS

PROLOGUE

FOOTNOTES

CAUTION!!!

TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE

RIDGWAY

Color Wheel

Fifty-Three Colored Plates

Eleven Hundred and Fifteen Named Colors

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COLOR STANDARDS
AND
COLOR NOMENCLATURE

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BY

ROBERT RIDGWAY, M.S., C.M.Z.S., Etc.

Curator of the Division of Birds, United States
National Museum.

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With Fifty-three Colored Plates
and
Eleven Hundred and Fifteen Named Colors.

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WASHINGTON. D. C.

1912.

Published by the Author.

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Copyright, 1912
by
Robert Ridgway

PRESS OF
A. HOEN & COMPANY
BALTIMORE, MD

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TO
SeÑor Don JOSÉ C. ZELEDÓN
OF
San JosÉ, Costa Rica

True and steadfast friend for more than two-score years; host, guide, and companion on excursions among the glorious forests, magnificent mountains, and lovely plains of his native land; whose encouragement made possible the completion of a seemingly hopeless task, this book is affectionately and gratefully dedicated.