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DEPARTMENT OF ORNITHOLOGY. 
The exhibition series of specimens in this department occupy 
Halls 26 and 27 and the Alcove off the West Court at the entrance 
to Hall 26, which should be made the starting point to study these 
collections. 
In the alcove entrance to Hall 26 (No. 100) are placed two 
cases containing a collection of the nests and eggs of native and 
exotic birds. 
HALL 26. 
GENERAL ORNITHOLOGY. 
At present there are something over 600 mounted specimens 
representing about 540 species. These species illustrate the lead- 
ing characters of about one hundred families which are arranged 
and classified in systematic order beginning with the Grebes 
Podicipidce and ending with the Thrushes TurdidcF. 
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, guilleriiots, 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. 
