Title: The American Museum journal
Identifier: americanmuseumjo14amer (find matches)
Year: c1900-(1918) (c190s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: New York : American Museum of Natural History
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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182 THE AMERICAN MUSEUM JOURNAL scene on the equatorial river Tana, showing perhaps all told twelve species in their natural surroundings with stories of the animals and a correct representation of the flora. In the foreground on a sandbar in the river will be a group of hippos; across the stream and merging into the painted background, a group of impalla come down to water; in the trees and on the sandbars of the farther bank two species of monkeys common to the region; a crocodile and turtles basking in the sun near the hippos and a few characteristic birds in the trees. Another of these large corner groups will be a scene of the plains, a rock kopje with characteristic animals such as the kilpspringer, hyrax, Chanler's reedbuck and baboons on the rocks. The background will lead off across the plain showing a herd of plains ani- mals— and the adjoining group will continue the story showing more of the species of the plains. The third of the large corner groups will represent a Congo forest scene with the okapi and chimpanzee perhaps, and such animals as may be legitimately associated with the okapi. The fourth group is to be a desert scene, a water hole with a giraffe drinking and other animals standing by, awaiting their turn. In these four corner groups we can present the four important physical features of African game country and they will be supple- mented of course by the scenes in the thirty- six other groups. The large groups however.
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Sketch model of the hippopotamus group, oiu; oi the four large corner groups on the main floor. A scene on the Tana River, showing a hippopotamus family on a rock in the center of the river and an antelope drinking on the opposite shore. There will be several other species of mammals and birds shown as accessories in this group

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