Excerpt from The American Museum Journal, Vol. 5: January, 1905 December 5, Prince Fushimi of Japan and his staff visited the Museum, spending most of their time in the recently opened Chinese Hall. A reception was tendered the prince by President Jesup and the Trustees of the Museum. After Mr. Chapman's lecture on The Home Life of Flamin gos, December 8, the Members of the Museum and their friends had a preliminary view of the Flamingo group and the San Joaquin Valley group which are in course of preparation at the north end of the Hall of North American Birds. These groups are the most elaborate bird groups thus far attempted at the Museum. Like the Cobb's Island group, a large part of the effectiveness of the scene depends upon the painted background which is introduced. The San Joaquin Valley group represents the broad, fiat river valley with the Coast Range Mts. In the dis tance and illustrates the effects of irrigation in an arid country, not only upon the agriculture, but also upon the birds which the ample supply of food has induced to take up their residence in a region otherwise hostile to them. The Flamingo group repre sents a scene on an uninhabited island in the Bahamas, and has been developed from photographs, birds and accessories which were obtained there by Mr. F. M. Chapman, Associate Curator of Ornithology, last May and June, upon an expedition a summary account of which was given in the October, 1904, number of the journal. Mr. Chapman is the first naturalist to behold the. flamingos in their home and to observe their nesting habits. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.