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Cincinnati, Ohio. During this time all the energies of the curator and his assistants were directed [[strikethrough]] to [[/strikethrough]] 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 zoogeographical 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