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 | | The mounted collections of birds now occupy the lower matn hall of the old Smithsonian building; but these are only a portion of the Museum's possessions in ornithology, the catalogue enumerating nearly 150,000 specimens, about four-fifths of which are held in reserve for study and exchange, The laboratory occupies a gallery of this hall. |
 | | With the ravens, crows and jays, the class of " singing birds " comes to an inglorious end, the next family introducing the lesser section of Passeres called Clamatores, which includes the flycatchers, the creepers, the ant-thrushes, the pittas and the Iyre-birds. |
 | | First to be con Ridered are the Tyrannidae, a family of purely insectivorous birds containing about 330 species, yet confined to the western hemisphere. |
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