PART I. — ‘ZOOLOGY. 
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from Sumatra ; the collared and white-lipped peccaries, from Central 
America. 
In four Table Cases in this room, is arranged a series of the 
skulls of the smaller mammalia, to explain the characters of the order 
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 hoofed 
quadrupeds. 
Cases 1 — 35. The Raptorial Birds. 
They are subdivided into the following great divisions. The Di- 
urnal Birds of Prey are contained in Cases I — 30. 
Case 1. The Bearded Vulture of the Alps and Himalayan moun- 
tains. These birds live chiefly on carrion. 
Cases 2 — 7. Various species of Vultures, as the Alpine vulture, 
from North Africa ; the black, carrion, and king vultures, from North 
and South America ; the Californian, and condor, or great vulture of 
the Andes ; the fulvous vulture, from Europe and Africa ; cinereous 
vulture, from Northern Africa ; sociable vulture, from South Africa ; 
and the Angola vulture, from Congo. 
Cases 8 — 30. The falcons, which are further divided : 
Cases 8 — 17. The different Eagles which prey on living quadru- 
peds, birds and fish, as the golden eagle of the British Isles, &c. ; booted 
eagle of Egypt; crested goshawk, of South America ; Brazilian eagle; 
laughing falcon, from British Guiana ; harpy eagle of South America ; 
bacha eagle of India and Africa; Jean le Blanc eagle of Europe, 
Java, &c. ; marine eagle, from Indian Archipelago ; osprey, from 
various parts of the world ; short-tailed falcon, from the Cape of Good 
Hope ; and the Pondicherry eagle, from the continent of India, which 
bird is worshipped by the Brahmins. 
Case 18. The different species of Caracaras, which are peculiar 
to South America, as the red-throated falcon, chimachima, and the 
Brazilian kite. 
Cases 19 — 24. Specimens of Buzzards : they are sluggish, and 
pounce on their prey on the ground, as the craxirex, from Galapagos ; 
Buzzard ; and the rough-legged falcon of the British Isles. 
Cases 22, 23. Various species of Kites : the weakness of their bill 
occasions some of them to feed principally on insects ; as the cohy 
falcon of India ; honey buzzard, from various parts of the world ; 
swallow-tailed falcon of North America ; kite of Britain ; and the 
spotted- tailed hobby of North America. 
Cases 24 — 26. The true Falcons, which are the most courageous 
in proportion to their size of all the birds of prey ; as the jer-falcon, 
peregrine falcon ; hobby, and kestrils, &c. , of Great Britain, &c ? 
