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5416 A feather and two other necklaces, a fish hook, from Ota- 



heite, &c. 



5417 An ivory walking stick head, beautifully inlaid with silver; 



and a curious double tobacco stopper, mounted with silver 



5418 A tea equipage, &c. &c. of extreme minuteness, beautifully 



turned in ivory 



5419 A most superb feather hat, the performance of Nuns at St. 



Salvador in the Brasils. The ground work is white 

 decorated with imitations of flowers executed in feathers 

 of the most splendid and rare birds 



5420 Black spotted snake 



5421 Spotted mursena, warted frogs, spotted labrus, and tw© 



others 



5422 Singular carinated tortoise, and another 



5423 Tichiurus lepturios, Linn, a fine specimen, America ; and 



two snakes 



5424 Thorny diodon, small, gadus tricirratus, newt, scolopendra 



morsitans, and the sprat — in five small bottles 



5425 Curious double egg, one shell being formed within the 



other 



5426 An interesting collection of eggs of the smaller British 



birds, many of which are rare 



5427 An ostrich egg, a curious double egg, and another 



5428 A hang nest, two esculent nests of the Chinese swallow, 



and two more 



5429 Nest of the water hen, with the eggs, and egg of an os- 



trich laid in the Tower, May 15, 1747 



5430 Singular double egg, and another 



5431 Egg of an ostrich, hang nest of the oriole, and three jnore 



5432 A very complete esculent nest of the Chinese swallow, 



timber perforated by the carpenter bee, and egg of an 

 ostrich 



5433 Crotalus horridus, and another snake, in two bottles 



5434 A large bottle containing a great variety of snakes, lizards, 



and other amphibious animals 



5435 Curious fish of the clupea genus 



5436 Singular black wrasse 



5437 Broad banded snake, frogs, and the River bullhead 



5438 Silver dory, spotted snake, fish, and a singular sponge- — in 



four bottles 



5439 A small salamander, Lacerta salamandra, and six other 

 ' curious reptiles, fishes, &c. 



5440 The black fish, in a large bottles 



5441 Weever fish, and five others, in six small bottles 



5442 A variety of snakes, in three bottles 



5443 Whelk with its animal, several fishes, &c. three bottles 



5444 Shell of small geometrical tortoise, and two more 



5445 Four elegant species of tortoise, one very rare 



