92 Forest Birds. 



CHAPTER IX. 



THE ARTISTIC GROUPING OF 

 STUFFED BIRDS. 



r I A HE setting up of birds, with their nests and 

 eggs, or young, as we find them in their natural 

 haunts, is an art of comparatively recent date. 



To the late Mr. E. T. Booth is ascribed the honour 

 of having been the originator of the idea, and we 

 have only to look at the cases of birds in the Booth 

 Museum, on the Dyke Eoad, Brighton, to see not 

 only how realistically, but how artistically that idea 

 has been carried out. 



Groups of both land and sea birds are exhibited 

 in the above-mentioned museum, and the majority 

 of the specimens which the cases there contain 

 are as perfect as it is possible to procure them. 

 The means adopted, however, in obtaining such 



