BIED GALLERY. 
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The wall-cases contain mounted specimens of all the principal systematic 
genera, placed in systematic order, beginning with the Crows 
and* Birds of Paradise on the left hand on entering, and ending 
with the Ostriches on the right. 
Among the multitude of specimens exhibited in this gallery, 
which form, however, but a small proportion of the different 
kinds of Birds known to inhabit the globe, only a few of the more 
striking can be mentioned here. The various types of the Birds 
Fig. 14.— The Great Auk or Gare-Fowl (Plautus, ot Aha, impennis) 
AND ITS EGG. 
(Fiom specimens in the Museum.) 
of Prey are very fully represented: from the Condor of the 
Andes, the large Sea-Eagle of Bering Strait, and the Great 
Eagle-Owl of Europe (all of which are placed in separate cases), 
to the Dwarf Falcon in case 53, which is not much larger 
- than a sparrow, and preys upon insects. Among the large group of 
Perching- Birds, attention is drawn to the cases of Birds of Paradise 
and Bower-Birds in the first bay on the left. In separate cases 
in the sixth bay on the opposite side of the gallery are placed 
skeletons of the Dodo and Solitaire, gigantic Pigeons with wings 
