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POPULAR OFFICIAL GUIDE. 



GREAT CROWNED PTGEON. 



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 Duck, 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 fror.i 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- 

 cave-Casqued Hornbills and the Toucans (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 cry is strangely like the 

 mirthless horsedaugh of a man who has few smiles and 

 seldom uses one. The Himalayan Jay-Thrush is so eon- 

 firmed a murderer of birds smaller than himself, it is neces- 



