Exhibit in Chicago Natural History Museum 



Mount Cameroon; Birds of an African Mountain Forest 



The Mount Cameroon group represents the rain forest in Africa. Through the break 

 in the trees can be seen the top of the lowland rain forest, which extends unbroken for a 

 thousand miles south and east to the far edge of the Belgian Congo, and with slight in- 

 terruptions to the northwest as a coastal strip to Sierra Leone in Upper Guinea. In the 

 background is Mount Cameroon, rising to just over 13,000 feet. Its upper third is tree- 

 less but the middle third is covered with the mountain rain forest shown in the group. 

 In the foreground and on the right arc liana-draped tree trunks with a luxuriance of 

 epiphytes. This forest, where as much as 500 inches of rain may fall in a year, is char- 

 acterized by a luxuriant tangle of dracaena, lianas, ferns, amaryllis, orchids, and wild 

 figs. 



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