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artistic groups of North American water birds, in two mahogany cases, mounted with surroundings indicating their natural habitat; (4) A collection of eggs and casts of eggs varying from the enormously large egg of the extinct [[underlined]] Epyornis [[/underlined]] to the tiny egg of the Hummingbird, with explanatory labels; (5) A series of original water color paintings, by the curator, representing extremely rare North American birds either extinct, or on the verge of extinction; (6) A series of facsimile reproductions of plates of Audubon's great work on the Birds of North America, appropriately framed and labeled. As a special feature of the exhibit illustrating the geographical distribution a series of colored maps may be mentioned, each representing on the the zoo-geographical origins of the earth.

Transcription Notes:
Epyornis = Apyornis?