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IN the name of scientific accuracy and fair criticism I protest against Mr. Murphy's letter in NATURE, vol. xix. p. 197. His. remarks proceed on the perfectly gratuitous assumption that all eagles have blue eyes. As this is not a fact (the only live ones I have examined had both of them green eyes), I have no hesitation in asserting that when Shakespeare wrote “An eagle, madam, hath not so green, so quick, so fine an eye as Paris hath,” he did so, after having seen an eagle or eagles, and that when he said green he “evidently” meant green, and not blue.
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CRAIG-CHRISTIE, A. Shakespeare's Colour-Names. Nature 19, 221 (1879). https://doi.org/10.1038/019221b0
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