

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 en\'ironment. 



Fruit Bats 



The bats, the only mammals that really fly, and rodents, the most 

 numerous and widely distributed of mammals, are provisionally placed 

 in this hall pending other arrangements. 



The fruit bats, often known as flying foxes, the largest members of 

 the order and found only in the warmer parts of the Old 

 World, are represented by a small portion of a colony from 

 Calapan, Philippine Islands. Such a colony may number several 

 thousands, and be very destructive to bananas and other fruits. 



Suspended from the ceiling in the center of the hall is the skeleton of 

 a medium-sized North Atlantic right whale, a species once common on 

 our coast, but now all but exterminated in the North Atlantic. 



SOUTH CENTRAL WING 



Bird Groufs 



Here are the "Habitat Groups" of North American birds. This 

 unique series of groups shows the habits of some tjrpical American birds 

 in their natural haunts. The groups have been prepared under the 

 immediate direction of Frank M. Chapman, curator of ornithology, who 



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