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POPULAR OFFICIAL GUIDE. 



TOCO TOUCAN. 



more than one species, the picture labels quickly furnish a 

 key for identification of each. 



In the Glass Court and around it, the Curator of Birds, 

 Mr. C. William Beebe, has scored a gratifying success in 

 the installation of the Order Passeres. The birds are ar- 

 ranged by Families, and all of the twenty-one families of 

 eastern North American perching birds are represented. 

 These Families are as follows : Flycatchers, Swallows, Wrens, 

 Mockingbirds and Catbirds, Thrushes, Kinglets, Vireos, 

 Waxwings, Shrikes, Chickadees, Nuthatches, Brown 

 Creepers, Warblers, Pipits, Horned Larks, Sparrows, Honey 

 Creepers, Tanagers, Blackbirds and Orioles, English Starling, 

 Crows and Jays. It is only those who have attempted to 

 form and install such a collection who can appreciate the 

 effort which that collection has cost, or the difficulties in- 

 volved in the maintenance of so large a number of insect- 

 eating birds. The birds in this section of the Bird-House 

 are especially interesting to the teachers and pupils of the 

 public schools of this city. 



The large circular flying cage, at the outer corner of the 

 Glass Court, is filled with Robins, Bluebirds, Thrushes and 

 Woodpeckers which wintered there very comfortably, be- 



