General guide to the exhibition halls of the American Museum of Natural History . THE DODO Restored from Old Dutch paintings. This gigantic pigeon was at one time abun-dant in Mauritius but it was quickly exterminated by early navigators. arranged according to Sharpes conception of their natural series begins with the Ostriches, the lowest birds (that is, thosewhich seem to have changed least from their reptilian ancestors), andgoes up to those which show the highest type of development, the SingingPerching Birds, such as our Thrushes and Finches. The remaining caseson the rig
General guide to the exhibition halls of the American Museum of Natural History . THE DODO Restored from Old Dutch paintings. This gigantic pigeon was at one time abun-dant in Mauritius but it was quickly exterminated by early navigators. arranged according to Sharpes conception of their natural series begins with the Ostriches, the lowest birds (that is, thosewhich seem to have changed least from their reptilian ancestors), andgoes up to those which show the highest type of development, the SingingPerching Birds, such as our Thrushes and Finches. The remaining caseson the right wall and all of those on the left show the geographicaldistribution of the bird fauna of the world. The specimens are groupedaccording to the great fauna! regions, the Antarctic, South AmericanTemperate, American Tropical, North American Temperate, Arctic EXTIXCT BIRDS 71. THE PTARMIGAN IN WINTER One of a series of groups showing the birds seasonal changes of colors broughtabout by molting and feather growth. Extinct Birds Eurasian, Indo-Malayan, African and Australian realms. These cases, inconnection with the accompanying maps, give opportunity for a com-parative study of the birds of the different parts of the world. In eachregion, as in the Synoptic Collection, the birds are arranged in theirnatural classification. In the alcoves near the entrance are several cases containing birdswhich have become extinct or nearly so. The Labrador Duck, once acommon visitor to our Long Island shores, became ex-tinct for no known reason. The Great Auk and the Dodowere flightless species which bred in great numbers on small islands andwere easily and quickly killed off by men. The Passenger Pigeon ofNorth America lived by the million, in such dense flocks that vastnumbers were slaughtered with ease, but the last individual died incaptivity September 1, 1914. The Hea
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