Peter Woodall wrote:
> The colour chart most widely used is:
>
> Naturalists Color Guide by Frank B Smithe (1975). American Museum of Natural
> History.
>
> It has examples, and names for some 86 standard colours.
Great things indeed - but correct me if I'm wrong or stating the obvious - these
things are only useful to describe the colours of objects "in the hand". It
will
not, I suspect, enable observers to determine the exact shade of pink or yellow
of
the facial skin of a Regent Honeyeater 10 metres up a tree!!
My recollection is that Andrew Isles Bookshop has stocked them & can probably
still
source them.
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