Penguin 

 Antarctica 



Rain- 

 forest^ 

 [Africa 



Weaver bird 



Africa 



(Desert 

 Africa 



Rain- 

 forest 

 /Guate- 

 malo/ 



/ 



Quetzal 

 Guatemala 



FLOOR PLAN 

 West End of Bird Hall (Hall 20) 



This, the more modern end of the 

 hall, is nearly completed. Two small 

 spaces are still empty. One is tentatively 

 allocated to mound-builders and their 

 nests; the other to a whistling swan-tundra 

 scene. 



The big advance in these exhibits 

 over those in the east end of the hall is 

 that you look out of the hall through a 

 window, onto the scene. The impression 

 of space, distance, and actuality is thus 

 greatly heightened. 



The construction of the background is 

 also different : no longer are there two 

 murals on two flat walls for each scene. 

 A single curved wall holds the mural, 

 heightening the illusion that the real fore- 

 ground and the painted background are 

 one, and sweeping to the horizon. 



Albatross etc' 

 Loysan Island 



Red 

 X, Grouse 



Eagle owl & 

 joy Asia ' 



Ruff 

 Hollond 



Morsti 

 Africa 



empty 



Kiwi 

 New Zealand 



[ Oropen- 

 dulo 

 Guate- 

 mala 



empty 



F'eofowl 

 Indochina 



