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when running along the branches of the high trees in 
their home, the Indo-Malayan forests. The Malays 
do not distinguish between them and the Squirrels, 
calling them all “ Tupai,” the word from which the 
scientific name of the genus has been taken. The 
most curious form is the Pentailed Tree-Shrew, 
Ptilocercus lowi, with a long racket-like tail. The 
order of the Insectivora moreover teems throughout 
with interesting forms, and among them we may 
mention the Macroscelidae of Africa, the peculiar 
Desman (Myogale moschata) and the allied M. 
pyrenaica from Spain, and a number of forms recently 
discovered in Madagascar by Dr. Forsyth Major. 
In the sixth case are displayed a number of forms 
of the larger order of 
Carnivora. 
There are here beautiful varieties of the Common 
Otter (Lutra lutra or Lutra vulgaris), as well as the 
Irish Otter, which is a local subspecies of the Common 
Otter. There are the five Mustelae of the British 
Islands, i.e. the Common Weasel, Mustela vulgaris, 
the Irish Stoat, M. hibernica, the Stoat or Ermine, 
Mustela erminea, in many varieties, the Polecat, M. 
putorius, and the Marten, M. martes. The Badger is 
represented in its ordinary colour, and by a partial and 
a total albino; the Sable {Mustela zibellina)\s exhibited, 
as well as the Racoon {Procyon lotor), so well known 
