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THE ZOOLOGICAL DEPARTMENT. 
[UPPER 
Insects, Spiders and Crabs ; the Collections of the Shells and external 
skeletons of British Molluscous and Radiated Animals. 
In the Wall Cases 1-9 are the British Mammalia. Cases 10-30 
contain the Birds. Among these are specimens of two species, which 
have now become extinct in these islands : the Capercailzie or Wood 
Grouse, and the Great Auk ; in the bottom cf the Case is a Col- 
lection of the Nests of the smaller British Birds. Case 31. The 
British Reptiles. Cases 31-43. The British Fishes. In Table Case 1 
are the Eggs of British Birds; Table Cases 2, 3, the British Annn- 
lose Animals, such as Insects, Spiders, and Crustacea; Cases 5 and 6, 
Shells of British Mollusca ; and Case 8, the hard parts of British 
Radiated Animals. 
FOURTH ROOM. 
The Wall Cases round the Room contain the stuffed collection of 
exotic bony Fish, at present under arrangement. The Table Cases 
contain select specimens of Annulose Animals, to exhibit their sys- 
tematic arrangement.* 
Wall Cases 1-13. Spiny-rayed Fish, such as the Perches ; the 
Flying Gurnards, with their large pectoral fins ; the Chsetodons, some 
of which have a tubular mouth, like a gun-barrel, and can shoot 
a drop of water at their prey ; the Mackarel and Tunny Tribes, 
affording an important article of food; the Pilot fish, which follows 
in the wake of ships along with the Shark ; the Sword fish, with 
its long pike-like nose ; the Dolphins, which change colour so 
rapidly when they are dying ; the Surgeon fish, armed with a lancet- 
like spine on the side of its tail; the Wolf fish, able to crush the 
hardest shells ; the Gobies, which make a nest of sea-weeds, &c. The 
Anglers or Fishing Frogs, with their enormous head and mouth ; the 
Rock fish, so many of which are gaily coloured when alive. They have 
thick fleshy lips. 
Wall Cases 14-19. Soft-rayed Fish, such as the Carp, and other 
fresh-water fish ; the voracious Pikes ; the bony Pikes of the American 
rivers, armed with coats of mail like plates of ivory ; the Siluroid fish, 
many of which are armed with rows of plates. The Thunder fish of 
the Arabs is one of these, which can communicate a galvanic shock ; the 
Salmons and Trouts peculiar to the Arctic and North temperate regions. 
The Herrings, the Cod and Haddock family — so useful to man as food, 
and all of them swimming in great shoals ; the flat-fish, such as Tur- 
bots and Flounders, with compressed bodies : they lay on the white 
side at the bottom of the sea. The Lump-fish and the Eels are in 
Case 22. 
Cases 23, 24. The Sea-horse, or Hippocampus; the Globe fish, 
covered with spines : they can puff themselves up with air. 
* The General Collections of Insects and Crustacea are preserved in Cabinets. 
They may be seen by persons wishing to consult them for the purpose of study 
(by application to the Keeper of the Zoological Collection) every Tuesday and 
Thursday. To prevent disappointment, it is requested that persons wishing to 
t,ce those Collections will apply two days previous to their intended visit. 
