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DUCK HAWK ON PALISADES OF THE HUDSON 
Realism and artistic effect have been achieved in the ‘‘ Habitat Bird Groups,’’ and 
they present vividly many stories of adaptation to environment 
hall also contains small groups showing the nesting habits of a number of 
our common birds, among them the phalarope, oriole, flycatcher, robin, 
tanager, vireo and quail. 
SOUTH CENTRAL WING 
Brrp Groups 
Here are the “ Habitat Groups”’ of North American Birds. This unique 
series of groups shows the habits of some typical American birds in their 
natural haunts. The groups have been prepared under the immediate 
direction of Frank M. Chapman, Curator of Ornithology, who collected 
most of the specimens and made practically all of the field studies necessary 
for their reproduction. In the course of this collecting, he traveled more 
than 60,000 miles. The backgrounds are reproductions of specific locali- 
ties, painted from sketches made by the artist who usually accompanied 
the naturalist when the field studies for the groups were made. Practically 
all sections of the country are represented, thus the series not only depicts 
characteristic bird life of North America but characteristic American 
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