1891.
June 22
England
Liverpool. - Cloudless but hazy, still and warm.
  At Liverpool Museum 3 to 4.15 P.M.
Three Labrador Ducks [male] ad [female] ad and [male] ? juv. no
locality, all fairly good specimens mounted in
group on rock.
  Agelaius Phoeniceus, "North America", [male] ad, with
chin & upper part of throat pale rose color, the
occiput & right cheek mottled with white;
- a curious specimen.
  The collection of British Birds is very fine. These
are mounted in groups, each containing only
a single species in a case by itself, with accessories
usually simple & effective. Much glass is used to
represent water with excellent effect, ripples & 
rings being blown in the glass. A group usually
contained five or six and frequently a dozen
or more birds of various ages from the chick
up - besides the nest & eggs. The water birds
were especially good. In many of the cases
large photographs of colonies of building birds
such as Gannets, Wrens, Gulls, Cormorants etc.
were exhibited with the specimens; a capital
idea. The taxidermist work on this collection 
was done by a Mr. Reynolds of Liverpool who
died several years ago. It is, on the average,
far above anything that we can show in
American museums. Conventions have been
discarded and the most daring things attempted
usually with success. Nearly all the groups
contain one or more flying birds suspended by