Bird

Définition et enjeux

Joseph-Philippe-François Deleuze,  History and description of the Royal Museum of natural history… (1823)

“ A great number of birds, especially those remarkable for the beauty of their colours, have a totally different plumage according to their age, and even sometimes according to the season. Thus the same bird has often been described and drawn several times under different names. It is only after many researches that the different varieties and the passage from one to the other can be determined. We frequently see ten or twelve individuals of one species, presenting the same essential characters, but whose colours are totally different. ”
Source : Gallica

Asborne de Chastelain,  Scenes of youth (in English and French… (1841)

“ LOUISA. · Alfred, Alfred, pray look at all these pretty little birds; how nicely arranged they are. What is their name mamma?
MRS. STUART.
It is the numerous family of humming birds. In spite of their small size, it seems that nature has taken pleasure in lavishing upon them the rich colours, it has with held from other birds that are a thousand times larger: Nothing, in nature, can equal the brilkiricy of their plumage and colors, unless it should perhaps be a few of the vilest insepts, and the almost incredible beauty of some butterflies' wings.
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Source : Gallica

Portrait de Isabella Bird Isabella Bird,  Voyage d’une femme aux Montagnes Rocheuses

“ Le coucher du soleil est arrivé par tous les degrés de la beauté, par toutes les gloires de la couleur, par la lutte et le triomphe, le pathos et la tendresse, à un repos long, calme et rêveur, auquel a succédé la solennité profonde du clair de lune et un silence qui n'est interrompu que par les cris que poussent, dans la nuit, les bêtes des forêts embaumées. ”
Source : Wikisource

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