Guide to the nature treasures of New York city; American museum of natural history, New York aquarium, New York zoölogicl park and Botanical garden, Brooklyn museum, Botanic garden and Children's museum . soft tissues of its back where the young are hatched. Theperishable parts of many of these animals have been castin wax from life, thus utilizing in the model only the hardor indestructible parts. This method brings out in detailthe principal features, thus doing away with the objection-able and unsatisfactory exhibition of specimens in jars ofalcohol. Suspended from the ceiling is a skeleton
Guide to the nature treasures of New York city; American museum of natural history, New York aquarium, New York zoölogicl park and Botanical garden, Brooklyn museum, Botanic garden and Children's museum . soft tissues of its back where the young are hatched. Theperishable parts of many of these animals have been castin wax from life, thus utilizing in the model only the hardor indestructible parts. This method brings out in detailthe principal features, thus doing away with the objection-able and unsatisfactory exhibition of specimens in jars ofalcohol. Suspended from the ceiling is a skeleton of a NorthAtlantic right whale. Lack of room has again made necessary the installation,in the lobby adjoining on the south, of casts of certain pre-historic sculptures from Mexico and Central America whichordinarily would be found in the Mexican Hall in the sec-tion devoted to the Maya and Nahua cultures. Enter the SOUTH CENTRAL WING Birds of the World I hear from many a little throat,A warble interrupted Beginning on the right, the first four cases contain repre-sentatives of the 13,000 known species of birds in the prin-cipal groups, arranged according to their natural relation- 50. GREAT AUK LABRADOR DUCK 51 THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY ships. The series begins with the ostriches, those birdswhich have changed least from their reptilian ancestors,and terminates with the singing perching birds, such as thethrush and finch, of the highest type of development. Theremaining specimens in the cases around the hall aregrouped according to their faunal regions, , South Amer-ican Temperate, American Tropical, North American Tem-perate, Arctic, Eurasian, Indo-Malay, African and Aus-tralian. Visitors who do not care to inspect every case will beinterested in an examination of the hornbill, which has thepeculiar habit of sealing the female in her nest when sheis setting; the varicolored toucans, whose bills are fash-ioned into spoons by the natives of the di
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