150 The Official Guide to the 
Cases XIII. to XVII, 
It will be convenient to treat these five cases as one, 
as it is difficult in some instances to separate the 
contents. ‘The orders which they illustrate are those 
of the CARNIVORA, the more typical forms of which 
are highly predaceous, and their food consists as a 
rule (not without exceptions, however), of warm- 
blooded animals; the INSECTIVORA, which as 
their name implies, subsist as a rule on insects; 
and third the CHIROPTERA or Bats, one section 
of which (the Flying Foxes), is frugivorous, the 
remainder being insect feeders. 
Of the first of these three orders, CARNIVORA, a 
very juvenile example will be seen in a small case in 
the middle of the room; it is a pretty little Lion cub, 
three months old, which was born in Mr. Bostock’s 
Menagerie; in the Wall Case is a Leopard (els 
pardus) derived from the same source; a European © 
Lynx (F: Jynx) and a very pretty OcELoT (/. pardals). 
Further on are Indian Civets, ICHNEUMONS, and 
MuNGoOSE, the STRIPED Hyena (Hyena striata) an 
inhabitant of Northern Africa and Southern Asia, a 
nocturnal beast, and a foul feeder. A fine specimen 
of the European WoLF (Canis lupus), accompanied 
by a hybrid between a Wolf and a Dog, bred in a 
Menagerie; near to which is a JACKAL (Cants 
aureus), an animal of very wide geographical distribu- 
tion, which, like the Wolf, readily interbreeds with its 
near relative the Dog, an example of this cross’ 
bred at Melton Constable is in the same case. A 
beautiful white Esquimaux Dog is in a separate case, 
and of the Foxes there are examples of the ARcTIC 
Fox (Canis lagopus) and the BENGAL Fox (C. benga- 
densis). 
The Ursipa&, or Bears, are not strictly ain 
