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In this table are deposited a variety of eggs : room xi. 
among the former may be noticed the eggs of the natThtst. 
ostrich, the cassowary, &c. 
In this room are preserved several of the rarer 
quadrupeds. Among these the most curious are 
the following : 
In the Cases between the Windows. 
The black ourang outang, in a young state; 
the chesnut ourang outang, in a young state ; the 
long-tailed macauco ; the shunk ; the ermine, &c* 
In other Parts of the Room* 
The sea otter ; the musk, from Thibet ; the 
great armadillo; the long-tailed Brasilian porcu- 
pine ; the Canada porcupine, remarkable for its 
thick form, the length of its hair, and the short- 
ness of its spines; the lemurine opossum from 
New Holland ; the vampyre, or great South Ame- 
rican bat ; the duck-bill, or, Ornithoryncbus para- 
doxus, from New Holland ; a large antelope ; a 
small ditto ; the long-tailed man is or pangolin ; 
the short-tailed ditto ; sloths, in a very young 
state, one the two-toed, the other the three- 
toed species; an elegant specimen of the two-toed 
ant-eater. 
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