General guide to the exhibition halls of the American Museum of Natural History (1911) (14778565561)

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Title: General guide to the exhibition halls of the American Museum of Natural History
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History Sherwood, George Herbert, 1876-1937 Lucas, Frederic A. (Frederic Augustus), 1852-1929 Miner, Roy Waldo, 1875-1955
Subjects: American Museum of Natural History Natural history museums
Publisher: New York, N.Y. : American Museum of Natural History
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: IMLS / LSTA / METRO



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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 sea.as 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