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TuLS Guide to tlic Bird Cialkiy Las liceii pit'] aied liy 

 Mr. W. K. Ogilvie-Giaut, Assistant in the Zoological 

 Department. He lias also carried out the arrangement of 

 the Bird Gallery in its present form. The visitor should 

 notice that at the side of each recess in the ijallery the 

 conunon names of the kinds ot birds there exhibited are 

 displayed in large capitals, whilst a label is placed on the 

 e-lass front of each case showinti- the coninion name uf 

 any specially interesting or well-known bird which is 

 near the label. iMUther. e\eiy qiccimen has now attached 

 to its stand, not only its name but a number which 

 is a reference-number for the guide. The long explanatory 

 labels affixed to the special cases of nestiug-birds are 

 reproduced in the ])Tcsent guide. The cases of this series 

 and the explanatory labels are numbeied, so that for every 

 specimen which the visitor sees in the galleiy there is an 

 appropriate paragraph in the guide, which may be found by 

 merely looking up the nunrber. 



Photographic plates of some of the nesting-groups and of 

 a few specially interestiug birds have been mepared for this 



