day.] leverian museum. 



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il/7 Two of the hanging birds nests, suspended from the leaves 

 of a palm 



5178 An extensive collection of the eggs of small British birds, 



including a number of rare specimens 



5179 A black and yellow, and a white feather cloak, from the 



Sandwich Islands 



5180 Remarkably well-executed dancing mask, from Nootka 



Sound 



5181 Speckled azure snake, large and fine 



51S2 Twenty-six eggs of large birds, chiefly water fowl, some 

 scarce 



5183 Fourteen ditto, including those of the puffin, white pea hen, 



goose, and a very singularly elongated lusus 



5 184 Water newt, with the comb-like dorsal crest, a pleuronectes, 



and another 



5185 Large specimen of yellow gum, from Botany Bay j red 



ditto, and various others 



5186 Silvery pike fish 



5187 Five small fishes, &c. in six bottles 



5 188 A fine specimen of testudo Midas 



5189 A l ar g e an d a smaller saw of saw fish 



5190 Nest of the tree ants, cut open, Africa 



5191 Wasp's nest, curiously formed on a small branch of yew 



5192 Various specimens of the Termites, or white ants, in dif- 



ferent stages, together with specimens of their buildings, 

 bhiefly from Agrica. — They were presented to Sir ksh- 

 ton Lever, by Mr. Henry Smeathman, and are described 

 in vol. lxxi. of the Philosophical Transactions. 



5193 Nest of the tree ants, Africa 



5194 Part of hornets nest, East Indies 



5195 Ditto, Cayenne 



5196 Part of a very large nest of the tree ant, Africa 



5197 Section of a large hornets nest, East Indies 



5198 A complete nest of the same species, ditto 



5199 Cylindrical cell ef the tarantula spider, and a hornets nest 



5200 Nest of a large hornet, East Indies, and another 



5201 Ditto, two specimens, one shewing the internal structure 



5202 Cylindrical cell of the tarantula, insect galls, delicate comb 



of a small bee, nest of a large hornet, East Indies 3 and 

 ditto of the tree-ant, Cayenne 



5203 Cacao nut, branch of legatto tree, with its curious bark, 



and two curious nuts 



5204 A bird's nest on a branch of the Banksia, a hanging nest, 



and sundry foreign vegetable substances 



5205 A fine specimen of gum senega, and three others 



520(5 Cotton made from the flax, cotton in the pod, and sundry 

 curious vegetable substances 



