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P R E FA C EX 



THIS 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, whilst 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 guide. The long explanatory 

 labels affixed to the special cases of nesting-birds are 

 reproduced in the present guide. 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 



