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scene on the equatorial river Tana, showing 

 perhaps all told twelve species in their natural 

 surroundings with stories of the animals and 

 a correct representation of the flora. In the 

 foreground on a sandbar in the river will be 

 a group of hippos; across the stream and 

 merging into the painted background, a 

 group of impalla come down to water; in the 

 trees and on the sandbars of the farther bank 

 two species of monkeys common to the region; 

 a crocodile and turtles basking in the sun 

 near the hippos and a few characteristic birds 

 in the trees. 



Another of these large corner groups will 

 be a scene of the plains, a rock kopje with 

 characteristic animals such as the kilpspringer, 

 hyrax, Chanler's reedbuck and baboons on 



the rocks. The background will lead off 

 across the plain showing a herd of plains ani- 

 mals — and the adjoining group will continue 

 the story showing more of the species of the 

 plains. The third of the large corner groups 

 will represent a Congo forest scene with the 

 okapi and chimpanzee perhaps, and such 

 animals as may be legitimately associated 

 with the okapi. The fourth group is to be a 

 desert scene, a water hole with a giraffe 

 drinking and other animals standing by, 

 awaiting their turn. 



In these four corner groups we can present 

 the four important physical features of 

 African game country and they will be supple- 

 mented of course by the scenes in the thirty- 

 six other groups. The large groups however. 



Sketch model of the hippopotamus group, oiu; oi the four large corner groups on the main floor. 

 A scene on the Tana River, showing a hippopotamus family on a rock in the center of the river and an 

 antelope drinking on the opposite shore. There will be several other species of mammals and birds 

 shown as accessories in this group 



