General guide to the exhibition halls of the American Museum of Natural History . sandpiper, one of the smallest membersof its family, of which two stand in theleft foreground. The Tuamotu archipelago occupies ahuge area in the central South Pacific andis one of the most extensive island groupson earth. Marquesas. A scene in the volcanicisland of Xukuhiva. showing a ruggedshore line and ridges dissected by the viewed from a height of nearly 2000feet. On the right is the Valley ofTypee, famous as the locale of HermanMelvilles romance of the same name. The birds include the giant pigeon(S
General guide to the exhibition halls of the American Museum of Natural History . sandpiper, one of the smallest membersof its family, of which two stand in theleft foreground. The Tuamotu archipelago occupies ahuge area in the central South Pacific andis one of the most extensive island groupson earth. Marquesas. A scene in the volcanicisland of Xukuhiva. showing a ruggedshore line and ridges dissected by the viewed from a height of nearly 2000feet. On the right is the Valley ofTypee, famous as the locale of HermanMelvilles romance of the same name. The birds include the giant pigeon(Serresius). which exists only at the islandof Xukuhiva, a smaller native fruitpigeon, swifts of the edible-nest group,warblers and old world flycatchers pecu-liar to this island, a forest rail, a grounddove and a pair of wild chickens or junglefowl, the ancestors of which were widelydistributed in the Pacific by the originalPolvnesian immigrants. Peruvian Guano Islands. Lookingsouthward across the Bav of Pisco. Peru,from the southern island of the Chinchagroup. The scene repres
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