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NATURAL HISTORY. 
[EAST. ZOOL. 
bears and 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. 
Cases 1 — 35. The Raptorial Birds. 
They are subdivided into the following great divisions. The Di- 
urnal Birds of Prey are contained in Cases 1 — 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 ; 
baeha eagle of India and Africa; Jean le Blanc eagle of Europe, 
