#nankeen

[birds-of-prey-daily]

Nankeen Kestrel

[ladymcbirb]

I met the most polite little guy outside of where I work today.

(Nankeen Kestrel aka Pretty Murder Parrot)

[snototter]

A nankeen kestrel (Falco cenchroides) in Penneshaw, Australia

by Charles Sharp

[ausbirdoftheday]

Today's bird of the day is the Nankeen Night Heron!

image source

[birdblues]

Nankeen Kestrel

[redrcs]

Nankeen Kestrel at Head of the Bight

On my travels

[bird-hours]

Yippe !

[dragonwhisper23]

Itchy Bird

[famoushindi]

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[thebotanicalarcade]

n20_w1150 by Biodiversity Heritage Library Via Flickr: Gartenflora. Erlangen :F. Enke,1852-1940. biodiversitylibrary.org/page/40101618

[a-voltage]

Just like oh, what could this brown heron I saw at night be?

Nankeen night heron.

[dictionaryhoarder]

I saw a nankeen kestrel by the ocean yesterday! Such a gorgeous bird, hovering just long enough for me to get a blurry photo. My beloved

[glossahistorica]

NANKEEN.

NANKEEN.—Boil equal quantities of Spanish arnatto and pearlash in water till dissolved.

The Englishwoman’s Domestic Magazine, May 1855, Collected Vol. 4, p.63. [x]

Scientific American (1853) notes these dye receipts are largely cribbed from other publications, including the Baltimore Sun that year, and are incorrect, thus "will assuredly do evil". They correct thus:

NANKEEN—This is the name of the color; it is a peculiar buff. The way to make it is described correctly above, but as in the lilac receipt, the mode of dyeing the goods is not given. Annato dyes a poor fugitive but beautiful color, and should never be used for that purpose, on any goods to be exposed to the sun, air, or that require washing. It dyes cotton and silk a buff, salmon, and orange. Acids redden it, alkalies strip off the color.

“Receipts for Dyeing” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 8 No. 48 (August 1853), p. 384 [x]

As a rule, I suggest you look for contemporary advice when attempting to recreate natural dyes from historical sources, and always utilise proper safety equipment and ventilation.

[teaktty]

Saw a Nankeen Kestrel at Boar's Head, Katoomba today.

[zorubark-art-account]

olhos

[puutterings]

unbleached cotton, a caution to the rest

        But one morning after school had called and all seemed quiet, a shocking circumstance occurred. Betty Briley came in dressed in indigo-blue, with short skirt and nankeen pantalettes.       She made a great contrast between the back-wood girls in their long, scant skirts. The larger boys drew down their heads behind their slates and snickered; and Nat and Towhead put their heads close together and whispered, very low: but it broke the rules of the school. The teacher’s back was turned, too, but she heard all the same; and the way she jerked those little urchins off their seats into the middle of the room was a caution to the rest. She demanded an explanation of what they were saying; but they were so frightened that they could not have told if they would, and would not if they could.       For punishment she thrust them down on a seat between some little girls — and one was Better Briley. It seemed a terrible disgrace. A flogging with those hickory wisps would not have seemed half so bad. It proved to be one of those never-to-be-forgotten lessons learned in the first days of school.       The excitement soon died away, and it was not long before every girl in the country went into pantalettes. John Brown had many a puttering job dipping short lengths of unbleached cotton in his vats, after hides were taken out. Tan bark made durable nankeen color, and was thought to be cheaper.       The circuit preacher came around every four weeks to hold meeting in the new schoolhouse, instead of in the deacon’s barn, which seemed more sanctimonious. For his dedication sermon he took for his text; “And a little child shall lead them,” and Nat wondered if it could be that the teacher meant Betty Briley; but he noticed that he did not say anything about pantalettes.

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ex Permelia Corey Thomson (whose name appears not on title page, but in prefatory note), her How the Coreys Went West : Fifty Years in Crossing the Continent (Press of Frye & Smith, San Diego, Cal., 1908) : 78-79 (78) : link (Harvard copy) same (but University of California; Bancroft Library copy) via hathitrust : link the latter bears presentation inscription : “For dear Miss Scripps in memory of Mother. / Estelle Thomson, Adelle Thomson / 1917.”

in chapter 24 “Bound for the Land of Sunshine,” Rufus Corey late in life takes his family out to “the bay region of San Diego county in Southern California, and they settled on a ranch in one of the valleys, in an adobe house shaded by a great pepper tree...” near the border with Mexico.  

re: Estelle and Adelle Thomson, came across this letter to the editor of The Desert Magazine 2:12 (October 1939) :

                        Hollenbeck Home,                         Los Angeles, California Dear Mr. Henderson:       We had never seen a copy of “Desert Magazine” unti three weeks ago — then a friend found one of February 1939 in a wastepaper truck — and brought it to us. We polished it and found it a jewel.       In addition to being 93 and blind I have a broken bone and live in a wheelchair. My sister who is 84 takes care of me. She has not time to read . . . So we have five readers, who read such books as Longstreth’s “Laurentians,” all by Shackleton, “Land of Little Rain,” Mary Austin, etc. With our books we have traveled almost all civilized lands and some uncivilized. You may imagine how the “Desert” appealed to us.       We found one current “Desert” issue, August, visited nearly every second hand magazine shop in Los Angeles and finally were rewarded with December 1937, July ’38 and May ’39. For some we paid fifty cents a copy. They were worth it! But we exhausted the supply.       Fifty years ago I roamed over much of the wild land around San Diego and Tiajuana for Philadelphia “Times” and “Press.”       My sister retired after 30 years as head cashier at Hotel del Coronado, with the advent of automobiles, coached thousands of guests (El Centro bound) as to the “jump” of sidewinders. Estelle Thomson. by Adelle Thomson.

(followed by a letter from Barry M. Goldwater !)

link (pdf) via mindat.org : link

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