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THE ZOOLOGICAL DEPARTMENT. 
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as Baird's Tapir of Central America ; the African Swine, with warts 
on the head, and formidable tusks ; the Babyrussa, with its 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 Bhinoceros. 
The Shielded Beasts, as the Manis, or Scaly Ant-eaters of India and 
Africa, with their 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, with its armature of spines, and the Duck-billed 
Platypus of the same country, called Water Mole by the colonists, as 
it burrows in the banks of streams, and is a good swimmer. The 
Sloths of South America, peculiarly organized for a forest life ; living 
entirely among trees, and crawling along the under side of the branches. 
Cases 17-30 contain the Deer, Musks, and Horses. In the Deer 
the horns, which, except in the Beindeer, are confined to the males, 
?ire solid and annually shed and reproduced. The Stag and Fallow 
Deer of Europe, the large Wapiti of North America, the Beindeer 
and Elk of Northern Europe and America, the Busa 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, Bapacious, Glirine, and Pouched Beasts, and over the 
Cases are the different kinds of Seals, Manatees, and Porpoises ; and 
arranged in Table Cases are the general collections 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 Bight Whale of the Nor- 
thern Hemisphere ; it is a young individual, not quite half grown. 
Further, a skeleton of the Bottle-nosed Dolphin {DolpJiinus tursio), 
of which a large shoal was taken near Holyhead in 1866 ; of the 
Narwhal (Monodun rnonoceros), 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 
