The American Museum Journal 
Vou. VII APRIL, 1907 No. 4 
URING the past month the Museum has issued a new 
Guide Leaflet. This pertains to the extensive col- 
lections in the Peruvian Hall and is descriptive of 
the strange looking “‘mummy bundles”? which come 
from Peru and their contents and the objects which 
have been found associated with them in the graves. 
The Be is Mr. Charles W. Mead, of the Department of Ethnology, 
who has devoted several years to the study of Peruvian archeology 
and has made many interesting discoveries. The importance of 
the mummy bundles and the contents of the graves of the ancient 
Peruvians is enhanced by the fact that the people had no written lan- 
guage and that these objects are almost the only data that we have for 
studying the manners and customs of the interesting people that the 
Spaniards found inhabiting the Pacific slopes of the central Andes at 
the time of the Conquest. ‘The Leaflet, which is No. 24 of the Museum 
series, will be sent free, upon request, to any Member of the Museum. 
Others may obtain the pamphlet at the entrance to the building or 
from the Librarian on payment of 10 cents. 
HABITAT GROUPS OF BIRDS. 
Wiru this number of the JourNAL we present illustrations of two 
of the new bird groups which have been mounted in the Hall of North 
American Ornithology (Gallery floor, north wing). ‘These are part of 
a series which is being prepared with funds provided by the North 
American Ornithology Fund representing the birds of the continent in 
their natural surroundings, or “ habitats.’ 
One of these groups represents a family of Ward’s Great Blue Heron 
in the swamps of central Florida near the Indian River. This bird, 
once abundant, has been almost exterminated by plume hunters. 
The other group illustrated in this number of the JouRNAL is that 
of the Prairie Hen and represents several couples during the mating 
season, when the male goes through his peculiar antics of “drumming” 
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