ORIZABA GROUP 



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sections ol* the country arc represented, thus the scries not only depicts char- 

 acteristic bird life of North America hut characteristic American Bcenery as 

 well. The backgrounds of the groups were painted by Bruce Horsfall, ( hades 

 J. Hittell, J. Hobarl Nichols, Carl Rungius, W. B.Cox and Louis A. Puerte . 



The foliage and flowers were reproduced in the Museum laboratories from 

 material collected in the localities represented. Each group is fully described 



in the label attached to the case. [See Guide Leaflets No. 28 and No. 22.] 

 Beginning- with the case at the right of the entrance and passing on to the 

 right around the hall, we find the groups arranged in the following sequence: 



Orizaba 

 Group 



White pelican from Klamath Lake Group, Oregon. One young bird is illustrating its amusing 

 method of procuring food from its parent's throat 



The distribution of birds, notwithstanding their powers of flight, is 

 limited in great measure by climate. Thus in traveling from Panama 

 north to Greenland there are zones of bird life correspond- 

 ing to the zones of temperature. This condition is illus- 

 trated in the mountain of Orizaba in Mexico, where in 

 traveling from the tropical jungle at its base to its snow clad peak the 

 naturalist finds zones of life comparable with those to be found in travel- 

 ing north on the continent. Thus the Orizaba group so far as the distri- 

 bution of life is concerned is an epitome of all the groups in the hall. 



Among our most beautiful and graceful shore birds are the terns and 

 gulls, which (because of their plumage) have been so cease- 

 lessly hunted and slaughtered for millinery purposes that 

 now in their breeding places there are only hundreds where 

 formerly there were thousands. The group represents a section of an 

 island off the Virginia coast where the birds are now protected by law. 



Cobb's Island 

 Group 



