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‘nis Guide to the Bird Gallery has been prepared by 
Mr. W. R. Ogilvie-Grant, Assistant in the Zoological 
Department. He has also carried out the arrangement of 
the Bird Gallery in its present form. The visitor should 
notice that at the side of each recess in the gallery the 
common names of the kinds of birds there exhibited are 
displayed in large capitals, whiist a label is placed on the 
glass front of each case showing the common name of 
any specially interesting or well-known bird which is 
near the label. Further, every specimen has now attached 
to its stand, not only its name but a number which 
is a reference-number for the cuide. ‘The long explanatory 
labels affixed to the special cases of nesting-birds are 
reproduced in the present enide. The cases of this series 
and the explanatory labels are numbered, so that for every 
specimen which the visitor sees in the gallery there is an 
appropriate paragraph in the guide, which may be found by 
merely looking up the number. 
Photographic plates of some of the nesting-groups and of 
a few specially interesting birds have been prepared for this 
