CINCINNATI ZOO GUIDE 
with wire. The buildings are each eighteen by twenty feet, and 
the summer cages are the same in size. Here are housed hun¬ 
dreds of the finest and most valuable birds, including some rare 
and beautiful birds from Australia. It is not possible in the limits 
of this Guide Book to enumerate and describe all the birds 
in this collection. Attention is called, however, to the more 
attractive specimens. The visitor will find a large number and 
variety of small birds belonging to the order Passeres. 
ORDER PASSERES 
The birds of this order have four toes on nearly the same level 
and the hind toe directly opposite, thus giving great facility for 
perching. Among the specimens of this order usually found in 
the collection are English and American robins, thrushes, cat 
birds, blue birds, chewinks, yellow-hammers, finches, nutmeg 
birds, waxbills, African silverbills, weaver birds, Java sparrows, 
indigo birds, nonpareils, canary birds, gros-beaks, cardinals, 
orioles, cow-birds, troupials, starlings, larks, sparrows, black¬ 
birds, magpies, crows, etc. 
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