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The animals collected in the district are now being placed in 

 the middle of the room in oak cases, with plate-glass all around, 

 on the tops of table-cases holding at present the invertebrates, 

 and will show the male and female, young in nest, the eggs, 

 birds in change of plumage, all surrounded as in nature by 

 carefully-modelled plants and other accessories, the food, and 

 the skeleton. The labelling of these latter groups requiring a 

 mass of information, as being of local interest, is in this wise 

 (on light sage-green coloured cards) : 



TOWN MUSEUM, LEICESTER. 



Studies illustrating the Habits, ^c, of Animals collected in 



the County. 



CLASS— Ayes. ORDER— Passeres. FAMILY— Turdid^. 



Group No. . — Illustrative of the Life-History of the Whitethroat 

 (Sylvia CINEREA, Bcchst), a Bird of Passage, or Spring Migrant to 

 Britain (ivintcrs in Africa). 



So' r 1 -NEST OF " l^^^ ^ (^^^^<^) ''^"fl ^ (Female) are 



Sn r 1 Rn +n ( -1^^ " ( the actual builders of the nest, 



^ FOUR YOUNG ^^ „ ) SUf,;^;^i! "^ ^^" ^■'^""^' ^^^-^^ 



No. Male, and No. Female, in Spring plumage To be procured 

 Range. — N. Africa, Western Asia, Europe generally, common in 



Britain (except in the North), and also in L,eicestersliire. 

 Food.— Caterpillars, various small insects, and occasionally small 



fruits. 

 Eggs.— Four or five. Builds its nest amongst nettles or brambles, in 



low bushes near to the ground. (N.B. — Eggs shown at back of 



group.) Duplicate Skin and Skeleton. 



Bramble (liubus fruticosas, L.). Var. : 

 I discolor. 



Plant J Range. — Whole of Europe except ox- 

 Exhibited, j treme North, Russian and Central 

 I Asia and Northern Africa (not high 

 V Alpine). Common in Leicestershire. . 



Flowers and 

 leaves mo- 

 delled from 

 Nature by 

 the Curator 



!N'ow for the invertebrates, '^ot having a special room at. 

 present for these, they are best displayed in the centre of 

 the vertebrate-room, if possible, in table-cases, which are — for 

 convenience, though incoiTCctly in science — arranged in linear 

 order, beginning at the Protozoa and running on to the Cepha- 

 lopoda. As I before pointed out, a tabular arrangement is 

 inevitable except in some rare cases, where a group miglit be^ 

 taken to be pictorially displayed to give an idea of tlie creature's 

 mode of life. 



