. The American Museum of Natural History : pictorial guide. American Museum of Natural History; Natural history museums. THE BIOLOGY OF BIRDS A spectacular flight of birds winging across a Bahamian sunset; a cast of the fossil of the oldest-known bird, the Ar- chaeopteryx; an eight-foot "apartment house" community nest of African social weavers—these and many other striking exhibits await visitors to the Sanford Memorial Hall of the Biology of Birds, a hall named in honor of Dr. Leonard C. Sanford, student and patron of orni- thology. Included in the exhibition are hun- dreds of spec
. The American Museum of Natural History : pictorial guide. American Museum of Natural History; Natural history museums. THE BIOLOGY OF BIRDS A spectacular flight of birds winging across a Bahamian sunset; a cast of the fossil of the oldest-known bird, the Ar- chaeopteryx; an eight-foot "apartment house" community nest of African social weavers—these and many other striking exhibits await visitors to the Sanford Memorial Hall of the Biology of Birds, a hall named in honor of Dr. Leonard C. Sanford, student and patron of orni- thology. Included in the exhibition are hun- dreds of specimens of birds, bird skele- tons, models, maps, anatomical displays, diagrams, and photographs. The first part of the hall includes rep- resentatives of all major bird families. There is a glittering display of humming- birds, those smallest of all birds, and in another exhibit the skeleton of a hum- mingbird is seen beside the fossil leg bone of an elephant bird, the largest bird ever to have existed. Among extinct birds represented are the lovely passenger pigeon and the clumsy dodo, the latter by a skeleton as well as a reconstruction. The second section of the hall is a THE HATCHING OF A DUCK CHICK. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original American Museum of Natural History. New York : American Museum of Natural History
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