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GUIDE BOOK TO THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 
MAMMALIA SALOON* 
The collection of Animals is contained in two Galleries, and for the 
convenience of exhibition is arranged in two series. The Beasts, 
Birds, Reptiles, Fish, and the specimens of the other smaller ani- 
mals kept in spirits, are exhibited in the Wall Cases. The hard parts 
of the Radiated, Annulose, and Molluscous animals, as Shells, 
Corals, Sea Eggs, Star Fish, Crustacea, and Insects, are ar- 
ranged, as are also the Skulls of the smaller beasts, and the Eggs 
of Birds, in a series in the Table Cases of the several rooms. 
In the Wall Cases of this Saloon are arranged the specimens of 
Rapacious and Hoofed Beasts, and oyer the Cases are the different 
kinds of Seals ( Phocce ), Manatees, and Porpoises ( Delphini ); and on 
the Floor of the room are placed the larger hoofed beasts, which can- 
not, on account of their size, be arranged in their proper places in the 
Cases. 
Cases 1 — 28. The Rapacious Beasts. 
Cases 1 — 7. The various kinds of Cats, as the lion (Zeo), from 
South Africa; tiger, from India; the jaguar, and the different kinds of 
ocelots, from Central America ; the wild cats of Europe ; the chaus, 
from North Africa and Asia; the booted cat of the Cape of Good 
Hope ; hunting leopard of India and Africa ; the lynx, from Sardinia 
and the South of Spain, and from Canada ; and the caracal of South 
Africa and India. 
/Case 8. The Hycenas , as the striped hyaena ( Hyaena striata ) of 
Egypt; the spotted hyaena, from South Africa, with its young, which 
is blackish brown. 
Case 9. The true Civets, as the African civet, from the warmer 
parts of Africa ; the zibet of India and China, and the spotted zibet, 
or tangalung, from Sumatra. These animals all yield the secretion 
that has long been esteemed by some as a scent. The hyaena civet, 
or Proteles, from the Cape of Good Hope, and the slender ring-tailed 
Prionodon, from Malacca. The lower shelves contain the various 
species of genets, from the Cape of Good Hope, Abyssinia, and 
Western Africa. 
Case 10. The different species of Ichneumons or herpestes, the 
Mungos, from Asia and Africa; and the Suricate, from the Cape 
of Good Hope and Central Africa. 
Case II. The different species of Paradoxurus , Paguma, Hemi - 
galea , and Benturong, which inhabit India, Sumatra, and the other Asiatic 
islands ; the Cynogale, from Borneo ; and the JVandina, which comes 
from Western Africa; and the JBassaris or house marten of the 
Mexicans. 
* For an explanation of the method on which, the Zoological Collection is arranged, 
and a list of the genera, see a small work called the “ Guide to the Zoological Col- 
lection,” sold in the Hall ; where may also be had a " List of the Species of Mam- 
malia,” with their Synonymes. 
