BIRDS OF PARADISE 5] 
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. 
Suspended from the ceiling is the skeleton of a Finback 
Finback Whale ___ : 
Whale, sixty-two feet in length. 

THE WHOOPING CRANE 
A bird almost extinct. Shown in the ‘‘ Habitat Groups.” 

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