HALL 27. 
NORTH AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGY. 
Devoted exclusively to North American birds with an idea of 
giving special prominence to the ornithology of Illinois. The ar- 
rangement followed, that adopted by the American Ornithol- 
ogists’ Union in their check list of North American birds, begins 
at the right hand, entering from Hall 26 and continues from right 
to left. The family groups being exhibited in vertical series in 
the various sections of the wall cases. 
Wall Cases. 
Sec. 1.— The diving birds— grebes, loons and auks. 
Secs. 3 and 4. — The long-winged swimmers, jaegers, 
gulls, terns and skimmers. 
Sec. 5 .— The tube-nosed swimmers, albatrosses, fulmars and 
shearwaters and the totipalmate swimmers. 
Sec. 6.— Gannets, darters, cormorants, pelicans and man- 
o’-war birds. 
Secs. 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 and 13.^ — Ducks, geese and 
swans. Special attention is called to the fine pair of now extinct 
Labrador duck. 
Secs. 14, 15, 16 and 17. — Flamingoes, spoonbills, ibises, 
the herons, egrets and bitterns. 
Sec. 18. — The cranes. 
Sec. 19. The rails, gallinules and coots. 
Secs. ^O, 21, 22, 23 and 24. — The shore birds^ — phah 
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 fiycatch^ 
ers, larks, the crows and jays. 
