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And off we go.

Tonight let's return to a tour of some of the world's great treasures,

with more from How to See the British Museum in Four Visits, by W. Blanchard Gerald, first published in 1852. Let's pick up right where we left off and visit the first and a tour of the

zoological collections, which are actually no longer in the British Museum.

Let's begin.

Perching Birds

The Perching Birds are subdivided into five families, the wide gaping, the slender beaked, the tooth

beaked, the coath beat, and the climbers or scansorees.

The family of wide gaping birds is that ranged first in order, occupying cases 36 to 42.

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