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Ohio. During this time all the energies of the curator and his assistants were directed toward making the ornithological exhibit as creditable to the museum as possible, and I am glad to state, that these efforts were crowned with complete success. The bird exhibit embraced: (1) 530 finely mounted birds representing the characteristic types of all the zoo-geographical regions of the earth, arranged in four double mahogany cases, each specimen provided with a printed label giving the vernacular and systematic names as well as the geographical distribution of the species; (2) A group of mounted birds representing such species as play a conspicuous role in literature, with the names by which they are known in works of poetry, and a quotation of some characteristic poem relating to the species printed on the labels; (3) Twelve artistic groups of North America water birds, in two mahogany cases, mounted with surroundings indicating their natural habitat; (4) A collection of eggs and casts of eggs ranging from the enormously large eggs of the extinct Epyornis to the tiny egg of the Humming bird, with explanatory labels; (5) A series of original water color paintings, by the curator,