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Winter birds are shown in the exhibits of the Field Museum in 

 two habitat groups, in Hall 20. One of these represents the icy 

 shore of Lake Michigan during cold weather, and shows three 

 species of ducks, Old-squaws, Red-breasted Mergansers, and a Surf 

 Scoter, and also adult and immature Herring Gulls. The other 

 group represents a brushy woodland near Chicago, and shows the 

 Hairy Woodpecker, White-breasted Nuthatch, Screech Owl, Crow, 

 Chickadee, Prairie Horned Lark, Snow Bunting, Blue Jay, North- 

 ern Shrike, and an English Sparrow and Redpoll which have been 

 caught by the Shrike. 



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