NEW YORK ZOOLOGICAL PARK. 



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SULPHUR CRESTED COCKATOO. 



TOCO TOUCAN. 



sary to quarter that species with other birds abundantly 

 able to defend themselves against its attacks. 



On the northern side of the Main Hall there will be found 

 a very interesting group of Cuban birds, another of birds of 

 the Bahamas, a fair-sized collection of Finches, Weavers, 

 Canaries, Trogons, and other small species of foreign lands. 

 Here also is the rare and beautifully-plumed Greater Bird 

 of Paradise, (Paradisea apoda). 



The visitor is reminded that for all cages that contain 

 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 



