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ZOOLOGICAL COLLECTIONS. 
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in length, and 13 feet in its greatest circumference. This Shark is 
an inhabitant of the Northern parts of the Atlantic Ocean, and 
approaches annually the West Coast of Ireland, rarely straying to the 
coasts of England and Scotland. It is of a harmless disposition, its 
food consisting of small fishes and other marine animals swimming in 
shoals. On the West Coast of Ireland it is chased for the sake of 
the oil which is extracted from the liver, one fish yielding from a ton 
to a ton and a half. However, its capture is attended with great 
danger, as one blow from its enormously strong tail is sufficient to 
stave in the sides of a large boat. 
Cases 1 and 2, 31 and 32. The Llamas, used as beasts of burden in 
the Andes of South America, one species furnishing an excellent wool. 
The wild species are brown, while the domesticated kinds are black, 
white, or brown, and often variegated. The Camels, remarkable for 
their stomachs complicated with cells for holding water, and for their 
humps, which are stores of nutriment, whereby they are fitted for 
long journeys across the desert. 
Cases 3 to 16. Oxen. Among them may be specified the Lithua- 
nian Bison, or Aurochs, which in ancient times inhabited the Euro- 
pean forests, but is now nearly extinct, a few only having been pre- 
served by the care of the Russian Emperors ; the American Bison, 
or " Buffalo," which still wanders in gradually diminishing herds 
over the prairies of North America ; the Musk Ox, limited to Arctic 
America, where, w 7 ith 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 Asiatics, and the curious 
Nepalese Budorcas. 
The continuation of the series of Antelopes, such as the Bontebok, 
with its inscribed sides ; the fine striped Strepsiceros, with spiral 
horns ; the Nylghau, often called the Horned Horse of India ; and 
the Anoa of Celebes. In these Cases are also contained some others 
of the Thick-skinned Beasts, as Baird's Tapir of Central America; 
the African Swine, with warts on the head, and formidable tusks; the 
Babyrussa, with recurved horn-like tusks ; the social South American 
Peccaries, with a 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 structure it resembles a 
diminutive Rhinoceros. 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 
Porcupine Ant-eater, or Echidna of Australia, and the Duck-billed 
Platypus of the same country, called Water Mole by the colonists, as 
