BIRDS OF PARADISE 



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that unless the demand for them Boon ceases all tin* finer species will be 

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

 More Birds of Paradise have been sold al a Bingle London auction 

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

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

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

 the hall will he changed as Boon as circumstances permit. 

 Finback Suspended from the ceiling is the skeleton of a Finback 



Whale Whale, sixty-two feel in length. 





THE WHOOPING CRANE 



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



