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ings, and in the vast structures devoted to manufactures and 

 liberal arts agriculture, ethnology, and the exhibits of the 

 United States government. 



These collections, using this word in a broad sense, may be 

 classed under three heads: artistic or taxidermic, commercial, 

 and scientific. The first includes exhibits by taxidermists, of 

 which panels of game-birds shown by F. H. Lattin & Co. are 

 probably the best. The second contains such purely commercial 

 exhibits as eiderdown robes from Norway, and feather work 

 from various Central and South American Republics. Here also 

 might be placed a collection of characteristic Bogota skins shown 

 in the building of the United States of Colombia. Other exhibits 

 in both the preceding classes may be passed over. The third 

 class, scientific exhibits, may be divided into four groups, 

 Foreign, United States and Canada, General, and Government. 



Foreigji Exhibits. — Outside of America there are apparently 

 only two exhibits of foreign birds. 



New South Wales, prominent in almost every department of 

 the Fair, has a small case of water birds in the Fisheries Building, 

 and in the Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building a general 

 collection, mounted on the branches of two trees. These birds 

 were without labels. Japan has a small collection of mounted 

 birds, labelled with both scientific and common names. 



Of the Central and South American Republics the collection 

 shown by Costa Rica in its own building is incomparably the 

 best. It consists of several hundred well mounted birds bearing 

 labels of the same character as those used by the Smithsonian 

 Institution. The cases are excellent but the birds are rather 

 carelessly arranged and a number of the labels were transposed. 

 In addition to this systematic exhibit Costa Rica devotes one end 

 of the gallery of the building to a somewhat theatric display of 

 characteristic birds, mammals, and reptiles, with presumably 

 natural surroundings, and a large, painted background. 



One room of Guatemala's building is given to a grotto from 

 whose crevices peer truly grotesque mammals, while stuffed 

 birds, a part of which are labelled, are wired to the branches 

 of neighboring trees. 



Cuba has a small mounted collection of characteristic birds. 

 Trinidad shows a mounted group of bright-colored birds, some 



