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purchase. The animals of more frequent occurrence are of 

 course those which earliest find a place in such a collection, 

 and the List given by the Council in their Report of 1831 

 of the Maminalia and Birds which had been exhibited in a 

 living state, at the Society's Gardens, during the first three 

 years of their existence, was consequently more numerous 

 than any catalogue of additions made to it in a subsequent 

 year can be expected to be. With every succeeding year 

 the probability of acquiring animals not previously pos- 

 sessed will evidently become less ; but those which are ob- 

 tained will generally be invested with additional interest 

 and importance on account of their comparative rarity. In 

 the subjoined 



List of Animals exhibited 



in the last year, and which had not before existed in the 

 Menagerie, there are many which possess this interest, 

 while some of them appear to have been undescribed until 

 the period of their arrival in the Society's Collection, and 

 to form so many additions to Zoological Science. 



CLASS MAMMALIA. 



Order I. Fer^, or Beasts op Peey. 



Dog. Canis familiaris, Linn. 

 Var. Magellanic. 

 Russian. 

 Egyptian Fox. Canis Niloticus, Geoff. 

 Arctic Fox. Canis lagopus, Linn. 

 Bengal Cat. Felis Bengalensis, Desm. 

 Flat-headed Cat. Felis ijlaniceps, Vig. & Horsf. 

 Quica Opossum. Didelphis Quica, Temm. 

 Viverrine Opossum. Dasyurus viverrinus, Geoff. 

 Long-tailed Opossum. Dasyurus macrourus, Geoff. 

 Mangue. Crossarchus obscurus, F. Cuv. 

 Pekau or Fisher-Marten. Mustela Canadensis, Schreb, 



