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ness.of its spines; the lemurine opossum from 
New Holland ; the vampyre or great South Ame¬ 
rican bat; the Platypus anatinus or duckbill (by 
some called Ornithorynchus paradoxus) from 
New Holland, the most singular of all quadru¬ 
peds ; a long antelope ; a small ditto ; the long¬ 
tailed manis or pangolin ; the short tailed ditto; 
sloths, in a very young state, one, the two-toed, 
the other, the three toed species ; an elegant speci¬ 
men of the two-toed ant-eater. 
TWELFTH ROOM. 
This room contains a general and extensive 
collection of fishes, serpents, tortoises, lizards, 
frogs, &c. as well as many specimens of quadru¬ 
peds, preserved in spirits. 
Among the most curious of the fishes are the 
torpedo; the electric gymnote, popularly called 
the electric eel; the remora, the flying-fish, &c. 
Among the quadrupeds the most remarkable 
are, a very fine specimen of the three toed sloth ; 
the two toed ditto ; the slender limbed macauco • 
the least aut-eater; and the silky monkey. 
Among the tortoises the most remarkable are 
the testudo ferox or fieru tortoise, and the testudo 
radiata or radiated tortoise. 
Among the frog tribe may be particularized, 
the 
ROOM XI. 
Nat. Hist. 
ROOM XII 
