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gland on their back, 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 its internal structure it resembles a 
diminutive Khinoceros. The Shielded Beasts, as the Manis, or Scaly 
Ant-eaters of India and Africa, with very long claws, which are turned 
in when they walk ; the burrowing Armadilloes of South America, 
which, when danger threatens, can roll themselves into a ball, covered 
with jointed mail, whence they have derived their name. The 
Aard Vark, or Ground Pig of South Africa, which burrows in ant- 
hills. The Ant-eaters of South America, which are covered with hair, 
and have a very long worm-like tongue, which they exert into ant- 
hills, and, when covered with ants, draw into their mouths. The 
Sloths of South America, peculiarly organized for a forest life, living 
entirely on trees, and crawling along the under side of the branches. 
The Porcupine Ant-eater, or Echidna of Australia, and the Duck- 
billed Platypus of the same country, called Water Mole by the colo- 
nists, as it burrows in the banks of streams, and is a good swimmer. 
,Cases 17-30 contain the Deer, Musks, and Horses. In the Deer 
the horns, which, except in the Keindeer, are confined to the males, 
are solid and annually shed and reproduced. The Stag and Fallow 
Deer of Europe, the large Wapiti of North America, the Pieindeer 
and Elk of Northern Europe and America, the Kusa and spotted Axis 
of India, and the Brazilian Coassus. The Musks, with their peculiar 
fur and musk bag, are hornless, and have large canine teeth. 
The Horse tribe with solid hoofs, such as the Quagga,and the finely- 
banded Zebras of South Africa; the wild Asses of Asia. 
3. MAMMALIA SALOON. 
In the Wall Cases of this Saloon are arranged the specimens of 
Four-handed, Rapacious, Glirine, and Pouched Beasts, and over the 
Cases are the different kinds of Seals, Manatees, and Porpoises ; and 
arranged in Table Cases is a series of Corals. 
In the central eastern division of this Saloon, suspended from the 
roof, is the skeleton of a Whale from New Zealand (Balcena australis), 
a species as important to commerce as the Eight Whale of the Nor- 
thern Hemisphere ; it is a young individual, not quite half grown. 
Further, a skeleton of the Bottle-nosed Dolphin (Delphinus tursio), 
of which a large shoal was taken near Holyhead in 1866 ; of the 
Narwhal (Monodon monoceros), one of the most singular animals of 
the whale-tribe, distinguished by a long spirally-twisted tusk, which 
projects from the snout in the line of the animal's body. This tusk is 
developed on one side of the snout only (the left), very rarely on both 
sides. In the adult male it reaches a length of six or eight feet, but 
is seldom developed in the female ; hence it is probable, that its use is 
the same as that of the antlers in the stag. The ivory of the tusk 
commands a high price in the market, and was still more valued in 
mer times, when it was believed to be the born of the Unicorn. The 
