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in one bottle the egg of a crocodile, with a young ROOM xix, 
one of a few days' growth. The siren, from South 
Carolina, resembling in shape and colour, a large 
eel, furnished with two short legs, situated near 
the head, and three pair of branched gills on each 
side of the neck ; the Austrian siren, an extreme- 
ly rare animal, an inhabitant of the lake Circnitz 
or Zittieher Sea, in the duchy of Carniolia ; it is 
about thirteen inches in length, and of a very pale 
or whitish rose colour, with four legs, very distant 
from each other. 
Among the serpents, the most remarkable are 
the following, viz. rattle-snakes of different spe- 
cies, from North and South America ; the cobra 
di Capello, or spectacle snake, from the East- In- 
dies ; the horn-nosed snake, from the interior of 
Africa ; the cerastes or horned viper, from Africa ; 
the sea-green boa, with white bars on the back, 
from South America ; the boa constrictor, or great 
boa, from South America, a small or young spe- 
cimen, the animal often growing to the length of 
twenty, thirty, or even more feet. 
In the glass case in the middle of this room, 
are contained many specimens of dried fishes, 
&c. The most remarkable are the foliated pipe- 
fish, from New Holland ; also a chamseleon 
dried. 
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