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Capercaillie. A large bird with mottled grey and brown plumage, brown and white wings, and an iridescent bluish grey breast. It has a waxy red brow around each eye and a short, hooked beak. It stands on a mossy platform.
Stuffed bird, capercailzie, on loan from Zoology Museum.
Red squirrel. Squirrel with reddish brown fur and a white belly, with long tufts on its ears. The squirrel hangs from a Perspex bar with its front legs.
Red Squirrel, on loan from Zoology Museum.
Crossbills. Two taxidermy finch sized birds on Perspex perches. Both birds have large, curved beaks where the upper and lower parts cross over each other (like crossed fingers). The male has brown and orange plumage, the female brown and olive plumage.
Stuffed birds, female and male crossbill, on loan from Zoology Museum.
Double windmills. Two sets of four brass vanes on an axel with a leaf spring connected to it, on a brass and wooden stand. The vanes are facing the direction of rotation on one set and are twisted away from it on the other set.
Demonstration of air resistance. Double windmill each with 4 vanes : first set vanes fixed perpendicular to direction of motion; second set of vanes can be rotated individually around axis of support arm to give range of resistance from…
