verditer

• It could not, however, stand the effects of the atmosphere like the Tartarian lazur or lapis lazuli, in the course of time becoming of a dark and dismal colour Ground smalts, blue verditer, and other pigments, have passed under the name of bice 141. —  Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists
• Green Bice or Green Verditer, is the same in substance as blue verditer, which is converted into green verditer by boiling. —  Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists
• They lay four or five eggs, unspotted, verditer-blue, one of which is figured as a broad regular oval, only slightly compressed towards one end, measuring 1ˇ2 by 0ˇ9 One of the eggs taken by Mr. Gammie (the others were unfortunately broken) is a long, almost cylindrical, oval, very obtuse at both ends and slightly compressed towards the smaller end, so that the egg has a pyriform tendency. —  The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1
• These are similar in shape to that above described, but in colour are a beautiful clear verditer-blue, altogether a much brighter and richer tint than that of the first. —  The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1
• They lay from two to four eggs, of a pale verditer-blue ground, speckled and spotted pretty boldly with brownish red. —  The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1

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