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include a large number of species of the finest African Antelopes, 
animals remarkable for their beauty, for their former countless 
numbers, and for their threatened extermination in consequence 
of the inroads of civilized man into their domain. 
At the head of the staircase leading to the east corridor are Giraffes 
two mounted specimens of Giraffes, and a skeleton of the o^^pi. 
same. Alongside of these are placed the heads and skulls 
Fig. 13. — Female OKAn (Okapia trihswni). 
of Giraffes, as well as the specimen of their near ally the 
Okapi (fig. 13). 
The collection of Humming-Birds (Trochilidcc) arranged and Gould 
mounted by the late Mr. John Gould, and purchased" for the Collection of 
Museum after his death in 1881 , are in course of beinsj arnui'.'ed Birds, 
in the arches separating the east and west corridor iVoni the 
Central Hall. The resplendent colours and singular varieties 
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