How to See the British Museum in Four Visits, by W.B. Jerrold, Part 2
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The Birds of Brilliant Plumage
The kingfisher at times startles the English pedestrian when he is sauntering near a high-banked brook. It's gaudy plumage contrasts so forcibly with the sober tints of our English songbirds, that he is at first inclined to take the gay fellow for a truant caged bird. The visitor next arrives before two cases, 41 and 42, of Birds of Brilliant Plumage,. suggestive of the regions where the hummingbirds float in the air like winged flowers.
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