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DEPARTMENT OF ORNITHOLOGY. 
The exhibition series of specimens in this department occupy 
Halls 26 and 27. The entrance at the West Court should be the 
starting point to study these collections. 
HALL 26. 
GENERAL ORNITHOLOGY. 
At present there are 601 specimens representing about 535 
species. The 535 species illustrate the leading characters of about 
one hundred families which are arranged in systematic order ac- 
cording to the classification propounded by Dr. Stejneger in the 
Standard or Riverside Natural History. The groups are arranged 
in vertical series in consecutive order from left to right. 
Wall Cases. 
Sec. 1. — The South American ostrich. 
Sec. 2. — The emu of Australia. 
Sec. 3. — The cassowary, three species of the wingless, tail- 
less Kiwi or Apteryx from New Zealand, tinamou from South 
America, and four species of penguin, a group whose members 
are confined to the Antarctic regions. 
Sec. 4. — Grebes, auks, guillemots, gulls, terns, albatrosses, 
petrels, fulmars, etc. 
Sec. 5. — Sheath-bills, plovers, turnstones, curlews, snipe, 
stone-plovers, and bustards. 
Sec. 6. — Cranes, rails and horned screamers. 
Sec. 7. — Ducks, geese and swans. 
Sec. 8 . — Flamingoes, ibises, storks. 
Sec. 9.— Storks, herons, bitterns, etc. 
