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Secs. 14, 15, 16 and IT. — Flamingoes, spoonbills, ibises, 
the herons, egrets and bitterns. 
Sec. 18. — The cranes. 
Sec. 16. — The rails, gallinules and coots. 
Secs. 20, 21, 22, 23 and 24. — The shore birds — phal- 
aropes, avocets, stilts, snipes, sandpipers, curlew, plover, turn- 
stone and oyster-catchers. 
Secs. 25, 26 and 27. — The gallinaceous birds — the 
grouse, partridges and quail, the turkeys and the pigeons. 
Secs. 28, 29, 30 and 31. — The birds of prey — the vul- 
tures, the falcons, hawks, buzzards, eagles, kites and owls. 
Sec. 32. — The parrots; including two fine examples of the 
now very rare Carolina paroquet; the cuckoos and kingfishers. 
Sec. 33. — The goatsuckers and swifts; the Tyrant flycatch- 
ers, larks, the crows and jays. 
Sec. 34. — Blackbirds and orioles; finches, sparrows, jun- 
cos, buntings. 
Sec. 35. — Tanagers, swallows, waxwings, shrikes, vireos and 
wood warblers. 
Sec. 36. — The wrens, thrashers, creepers, nuthatches and 
tits, kinglets, thrushes and bluebirds. 
Center Cases. 
In the center of Hall 27 is a group of the American eider 
duck, representing the male and female. 
Gallery. 
The gallery of this hall contains the study collection of bird 
skins all arranged in systematic order in dust- and moth-proof 
cases. 
