150 POPULAR OFFICIAL GUIDE, 
GREAT CROWNED PIGION. 
and reports that a bird has been injured, and is bleeding 
from a wound in its breast. 
The Flying Cage in the center of the Main Hall contains 
a pool of running water, some small trees, an imitation rock, 
and the floor is covered with a comfortable layer of sand. 
Hopping or flying about, and perching on the trees, is a 
really remarkable medley of birds. There are the Wood Duck 
and Mandarin Dueck, Black Skimmers, Common and Sooty 
Terns, several species of Teal, Curlews, Gallinules, Coots, 
Lapwings, Snipe, Ruffs, Quail, Francolins, Senegal, Turtle, 
Wonga-wonga and other Pigeons and Doves, Skylarks, 
Robins, Orioles, Cardinals, Woodpeckers, Java, Fox, Tree, 
and other Sparrows and Weavers. 
The south side of the Main Hall is devoted to miscella- 
neous rare birds from the tropics, regardless of the Orders to 
which they belong. The largest are the Great Crowned 
Pigeons,— Victoria and Common,—the oddest are the Con- 
eave-Casqued Hornbills and the Touecans (eight species). 
The Rufous Tinamou, of South America, is a species which, 
through lack of use for its wings, is rapidly losing the 
power of flight. The Giant Kingfisher is the ‘‘Laughing 
Jackass’’ of Australia, and its ery is strangely like the 
mirthless horse-laugh of a man who has few smiles and 
seldom uses one. The Himalayan Jay-Thrush is so con- 
firmed a murderer of birds smaller than himself, it is neces- 
