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those long series of closely similar forms, which are capti- 
vating to the collector but of small value or interest to the 
ordinary observer. The table following shows that few of 
the general groups out of the four highest classes of verte- 
brats have been unrepresented in the Garden, by a consid- 
erable number of varied forms, and when it is considered 
that in the seven years and eight months during which the 
Garden has been open to the public, nearly two and a half 
millions of visitors have passed through its gates, it will be 
readily seen that its value as a means of popular instruction 
can hardly be over-estimated : — 
Mammalia. 
Primates, . 
Chiroptera, 
Insectivora, 
Carnivora, . 
Rodentia, . 
Proboscidea, 
Ungulata, . 
Sirenia, . . 
Edentata, . 
Marsupial! a. 
AVES. 
Passeres, . . . . . 
of 
90 species and 
60 g 
enera. 
Picarise, 
. . 59 
a 
13 
u 
12 
i( 
Psittaci, 
. . 260 
11 
51 
a 
19 
. . 410 
a 
38 
<( 
25 
u 
. . 100 
u 
11 
19. 
15 
Gallinse, 
. . 163 
(I 
ii 
'27 
17 
(( 
. . 6 
11 
2 
(< 
2 
i( 
Grallatores, . . . . 
, . 113 
u 
36 
u 
25 
a 
Laraellirostres, . . 
. . 141 
u 
u 
32 
17 
(( 
Steganopodes, . . . 
. . 8 
u 
a 
6 
11 
4 
u 
. . 17 
(I 
u 
6 
iC 
3 
u 
Pygopodes, . . . . 
. . 27 
u 
4 
u 
4 
<( 
Struthionides, . . . 
, . 14 
i( 
a 
4 
u 
4 
1,688 
n 
328 
207 
357 specimens, of 47 species and 17 genera. 
14 
3 
a 
3 
3 
a 
n 
2 
11 
2 
li 
395 
a 
li 
48 
11 
21 
11 
339 
li 
11 
42 
23 
(I 
5 
(I 
li 
2 
li 
1 
ii 
'>44 
11 
li 
43 
a 
23 
11 
4 
u 
11 
2 
li 
1 
a 
6 
11 
5 
li 
5 
156 
u 
11 
20 
a 
10 
a 
1,523 
u 
11 
214 
106 
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