BIRDS OF PARADISE 



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that unless the demand for them soon ceases all the finer species will be 

 exterminated, as the Great Bird of Paradise is already believed to be. 

 More Birds of Paradise have been sold at a single London auction 

 (23,000 in two sales) than are contained in all the museums of the world. 

 In this hall, too, are a number of groups of local and other birds which 

 are placed here only temporarily. In fact, much of the arrangement of 

 the hall will be changed as soon as circumstances permit. 

 Finback Suspended from the ceiling is the skeleton of a Finback 



Whale Whale, sixty-two feet in length. 



THE WHOOPING CRANE 



A bird almost extinct. Shown in the "Habitat Groups" 



