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and thus, in what purports to he a natural scene, avoid producing 

 many unnatural effects. If, instead of this, smaller groups were 

 shown, as for example a marsh and pond with characteristic marsh, 

 shore and water birds, a field and roadside with its Finches, etc., 

 would they not convey a truer impression of the avifauna to the 

 mind of the uninitiated? 



The Manitoban exhibit is placed in the Manitoba building 

 outside the Fair grounds. It contains a large number of birds 

 mounted on trees, but without labels. 



Ontario displays a smaller collection in the Ethnological 

 building. 



General Exhibits. — The natural history collections shown in 

 the Ethnological building by Ward's Natural Science Establish- 

 ment contain representatives of almost every branch of the 

 animal kingdom, and as a whole the exhibit is the most exten- 

 sive of its kind at the Fair. The collection of birds numbers 

 several hundred specimens and includes representatives of most 

 of the families of the class. 



Under the decidedly non-committal label of "Specimens of 

 Birds either Beneficial or Injurious to the Farmer," Brown 

 University exhibits a smaller collection of our commoner species. 



United States Government Exhibits. — The collections of 

 birds displayed by the Government include a systematic and pop- 

 ular exhibit by the United States National Museum and an 

 Economic exhibit by the Division of Economic Ornithology and 

 Mammalogy of the Department of Agriculture. 



The first is composed of the following collections and groups : 



(0 A systematic collection of the leading representatives of 

 the families of American birds with family labels, giving a general 

 account of the range and relationships of each family, and species 

 labels, giving the habitat of each species shown. (2) A beauti- 

 fully mounted collection of the principal game-birds of the world, 

 including most of the North American species. (3) A case of 

 birds whose names are frequentl} 7 confused as. for example, the 

 American and English Robins, Pheasants, Partridges, Quails, etc. 

 (4) A case of about one hundred and fifty Hummingbirds. (5) 

 A case of some fifty Birds of Paradise. (6) A group of Domestic 

 Fowls. (7) A dovecote with twenty-four varieties of Domestic 

 Pigeons perched upon it. There are also excellently mounted 



