FLOOR.] THE SOUTHERN ZOOLOGICAL GALLERY. 
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sometimes even men while sleeping, and fan the victims with their 
wings. They are of small size, but the wounds which they inflict 
often continue to bleed after the Bats are satiated, and all wounds are 
dangerous in a warm climate. 
2. THE SOUTHERN ZOOLOGICAL GALLERY. 
In the Wall Cases of this Gallery is exhibited the continuation of 
the collection of the Hoofed Quadrupeds, as the Oxen, Elands, Deer, 
Camels, Llamas, Horses, and the various species of Swine. Here also are 
placed the species of Armadillo, Manis, and Sloth, remarkable for the 
length and strength of their claws. On the ton of the Wall Cases are 
the horns of different species of Antelopes, and on the floor are arranged 
the different species of Rhinoceros from South Africa and India ; a 
small specimen of the Indian Elephant; a specimen of a very young 
African Elephant, remarkable for the large size of its ears ; specimens 
of the young, half-grown, and adult Hippopotamus from South Africa ; 
and the Wild Oxen from India and Java. 
Cases 1 and 2. The Llamas, used as beasts of burden in some parts 
of South America, and one species furnishes an excellent wool. The 
wild species are brown, while the domesticated kiuds are black, white, or 
brown, and are often variegated. The Camels, remarkable for their 
stomachs complicated with cells for holding water, said for their humps, 
which are stores of nutriment, whereby they are fitted for long jour- 
neys across the desert. 
Cases 3 to 10. Oxen. Among them may be specified the White 
Wild Bull from Chillingham Park ; the Lithuanian Bison, or Aurochs, 
which in ancient times inhabited the European forests, but is now 
nearly extinct, a few only having been preserved by the care of the 
Russian Emperors ; the American Bison, or " Buffalo, " which still 
wanders in great herds over the prairies of North America ; the Musk 
Ox, limited to Arctic America, where, with its peculiar head and feet, 
it manages to find food even during the long winter of those regions ; 
the Yak of Thibet, the tail of which is used as a fly-flap by the Asia- 
tics, and the curious Nepalese Budorcas. 
Cases 10 to 16. The continuation of the series of Antelopes, such as 
the African Eland, the giant of the group ; the Bontebok. with its in- 
scribed sides ; the fine striped Strepsiceros, with its spiral horns : the 
Nylghau, often called the Horned Horse of India ; and the Anoa of 
Celebes. In these Cases are also contained the Thick-skinned Beasts, 
as the Tapirs of America and Sumatra ; the African Swine, with warts 
on the head, and formidable tusks; the Babyroussa, with its recurved 
horn-like tusks ; the social South American Peccaries, with the pore 
on their backs, emitting a foetid odour. All these animals have 
muscular and callous noses, which fit them well for grubbing in the 
ground. The curious Hyrax, one of the species of which is the Coney 
of Scripture : in structure it resembles a diminutive Rhinoceros. 
The Shielded Beasts, as the Manis, or Scaly Ant-eaters of India ai d 
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