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GUIDE BOOK TO THE BPJTISH MUSEUM. 
come in its way : thus we have it covering shells, bottles, horny corals, 
and assuming the form of all the things it covers. 
Over the Wall Cases are placed the fish which are too large to 
be inclosed in the Cases ; as the Herschell pike fish, from the Cape of 
Good Hope ; the Sudis, from the rivers of Berbice ; the bony pike, 
from North America. 
FOURTH ROOM. 
The Wall Cases round the Room contain the collection of Fish, 
under the course of arrangement. 
The Table Cases, a few specimens of Annulose Animals, to exhibit 
their systematic arrangement. 
The general collection of insects and Crustacea are preserved in 
cabinets. They may be seen by persons wishing to consult them for 
the purpose of study (by application to the Keeper of the Zoological 
Collection) every Tuesday and Thursday. To prevent disappointment, 
it is requested that persons wishing to see those collections will apply 
two days previous to their intended visit. 
Wall Cases 1 — 13. Spiny-rayed Fish. 
Cases 1—4. The perches, gurnards, the flying gurnards with their 
large pectoral fins, the bull heads, the hog-fish, sea scorpions, the fly- 
ing sea scorpions or sea butterflies, paradise fish, and fingered perches. 
Case 5. The Scienoid Fish, maigres, ombres. 
Case 6. The bristle-toothed fish or Chcetodons. 
Case 7. The Holacanthi, the scombers, mackarel, tunny, the 
sword fish with its long pike-like nose : some of these afford a most 
important article of food. 
Case 8. Pilot fish, horse mackarel, John dories, pomfrets. 
Case 9. Dolphins, which change colour so rapidly when they are 
caught ; the sea garters and lophotes, which are very thin and com- 
pressed ; the surgeons, which have a lancet-like spine on the side of 
their tail. 
Case 10. The sea mullets, wolf fish. 
Case 11. The Lophius or fishing frog or angler, with their very 
large head and mouth ; hand fish, so called because its pectoral fins are 
elongate, as if placed on an arm ; the rock fish or Labri. 
Cases 12, 13. Various kinds of rock fish ( Labri ). At the 
bottom of 13, the tobacco-pipe fish and trumpeter fish. 
Wall Cases 14—19. Soft-rayed Fish. 
Case 14. Carp, and other fresh water fish of different countries. 
Case 15. The pikes: the bony pikes, from America; the garpike, 
which has green bones ; and different kinds of flying fish. 
Case 16. Siluroid fish : the callichthes, which are covered with rows 
of imbricate plates like scale armour; and the loricaria, which has the 
body entirely covered with a hard coat formed of angular scales , the 
salmon, trouts, &c. 
