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GUIDE BOOK TO THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 
Cases 44, 45. The different kinds of Phalangers, as the white-tailed 
opossums; the New Holland bears from Australia; and the true 
Phalangers, which are only found in Amboyna and New Ireland ; the 
tarsipes of South Australia, and the wombat of Australasia. The 
Flying Phalangers, as the Petaurus; the Norfolk Island flying squirrel, 
and the flying mouse, or acrobate. The right half of this Case con- 
tains part of the Kangaroos. 
Cases 46 — 51. The different kinds of the true kangaroos of Aus- 
tralia, and the tree kangaroo of New Guinea. The various species of 
wallabees (Halmaturus) ; the long-nosed kangaroos, and the rock kan- 
garoos. The jerboa kangaroos, and the rat-tailed kangaroos; the 
kangaroo hares ; and at the bottom the koala of Australia. The Aus- 
tralian Opossums, as the bandicoots ( Perameles ) ; the pig foot opossum ; 
the dasyures, the zebra wolf, and the Australian devil ; the phascogales 
and the banded myrmecobii. 
Case 52. The Opossums of America. And below, a few of the 
smaller specimens of Seals, as the young of the harp seal, with its white 
fur, as it is when it is first born ; and the young of the eared seal, from 
the Cape of Good Hope. 
On the top of the Cases are arranged the different kinds of seals, 
porpoises and dolphins, as the common seal and the great seal ; both 
found on the coast of England. The flat-haired seal ; the leonine seal, 
or maned eared seal, from the Southern Ocean. The manatee, from 
Western Africa. The Cape porpoise, and the Cape dolphin ; and the 
platanista, or long-beaked dolphin of the Ganges. 
On the floor, on the west side of the room, are placed for the 
present, the specimens which are too large for the Cases, and the 
skeleton of an elephant from India ; the skeletons of a wolf from the 
Arctic regions ; of a kangaroo from New Holland ; a seal, from the 
British coast ; an American deer ; and of an Indian tapir, to exhibit 
the peculiarities of the bones in the animals of the different orders. 
Skeleton of the Zubr or Aurochs, from the Forest of Lithuania. Pre- 
sented by his Imperial Majesty the Emperor of all the Russias. 
In a Table Case in this room, is arranged a series of the 
skulls of the smaller mammalia, to explain the characters of the orders 
and families ; as, the skull of a monkey ; of the slender loris ; of the 
different kinds of fruit-eating and insect-eating bats ; the various spe- 
cies of dogs, cats, weasels, mice, rats, squirrels ; the capybara ; and 
the musk, from Thibet. 
eastern zoological gallery. 
The Wall Cases contain the collection of Birds ; the smaller Table 
Cases in each recess contain Birds’ Eggs, arranged in the same series 
as the birds ; the larger Table Cases , in the centre of the Room, 
contain the collection of Shells of Molluscous Animals ; and 
on the top of the Wall Cases is a series of Horns of different 
kinds of Deer and Rhinoceri. 
