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PUBLIC HEALTH 



n (lluad (luck, wliicli lays from 

 fitU't'U to twenty t'«;^rs. (Repro- 

 duced from studies iiuide at 

 Crane Lake, Saskatchewan, 

 ( 'anada.) 



The loon is justly lamed for its 



^ skill as a dixcr, 



Loon Group 



and can swim 



with great speed under water. 



Its weird call is a familiar sound 



on the northern New England 



lakes. Many loons pass the 



winter at sea fifty miles or more 



from land. (Reproduced from 



studies at Lake L^mbagog, New 



Hampshire.) 



This rocky island thirty 



miles from shore 



in the Gulf of St. 



La\\Tence affords 



Bird Rock 

 Group 





Love making of the prairie chicken. In this position 



and with orange-Hke air sacks inflated, he pr(xluces a 



, 1.1 booming sound which may carry a distance of two 



some protection to the sea birds miles 

 which still nest in great numbers 



on and in its cliffs, although the colony is a mere shadow of what it was 

 even fifty years ago. Seven species are shown nesting in the group. 

 Namely the razor-billed auk, petrel, gannet, puffin, kittiwake gull, com- 

 mon miirre and Brunnich's murre. (Reproduced from studies at Bird 

 Rock, Gulf of St. Lawrence.) This was the first habitat group. 



[Return to the South Pavilion containing the apes and monkeys.] 



WEST CORRIDOR 



Public Hil^lth 



Returning to the South Pavilion where the monkeys are, and passing 

 to the right, we enter the West Corridor containing the exhibits of the 

 Department of Public Health. 



The Hall of Public Health is dominated by a bronze bust of Louis 

 Pasteur, the founder of scientific bacteriology and preventive medicine, 

 which was presented to the Museum through the courtesy of the Pasteur 

 Institute of Paris. Near the head of the stairway is a reading table where 

 pamphlets bearing on insect borne disease and other public health problems 

 mav be consulted. 



