Museum of Wonders, or Curiosities of the World

A cabinet of curiosities in book form, 1890: monsters of the ancient world, wild animals, queer wanderers in the vasty deep, famous inventions and sublime scenery — assembled to astonish the young and, the preface admits, their elders too.

The Whooping-Crane

2 pages in this part of Museum of Wonders.

The Whooping-Crane

tion. It lives with its companions in a the sound of a trumpet. Then the whole flock, and the flock stand in line, like sen- flock rise in…

The Whooping-Crane: Flamingoesthat

There are two kinds of Flamingoesthat of America is of a deep red, while the In the summer the flock of the Flam- one in Asia and Africa is…

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