THE NEW YORK ZOOLOGICAL PARK 



order Passeres, or perching song birds. All the twenty-one 

 families of eastern North American perching birds are 

 represented: flycatchers, swallows, wrens, mockingbirds, 

 catbirds, thrushes, kinglets, vireos, waxwings, shrikes, nut- 

 hatches, brown creepers, warblers, pipits, horned larks, 

 sparrows, honey creepers, tanagers, blackbirds, orioles, 

 English starling, crows and jays, as well as many foreign 

 and tropical species. 



The cages in the Glass House, flanking the passage to 

 the Parrot Hall, contain especially rare, delicate or quarrel- 

 some birds, which thrive better here than in the larger flight 

 cages. Among many of uncommon interest is the lately 

 arrived cock-of-the-rock from South America. 



A collection of quail is also to be found in cages in the 

 Glass House. 



In order that the visitor may distinguish between the 

 many birds in each cage, a picture key is provided on all 

 the labels of all the bird exhibits. 



A circular flying cage at the outer corner of the Glass 

 Court contains the flicker, tanager, robins, thrushes, car- 

 dinal, Baltimore oriole and others hardy enough to winter 

 out of doors. 



In cages along the outside of the western hall of the 

 Large Bird House will be found the crow and blackbird 

 families. On the east side of Baird Court, between the 

 Primate House and the Administration Building, an exhibit 

 of bird houses, shelters and food holders designed for at- 

 tracting and encouraging wild birds is arranged in order to 



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