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ROOM XI. 
Nat. Hist- 
TABLE 
2 . 
Ill this table are deposited a variety of eggs and 
nests : among the former may be noticed the eggs 
of the ostrich, the cassowary, the crocodile, &c. 
In this room are preserved several of the rarer 
quadrupeds. Among these the most curious are 
the following: 
In the Cases between the Windows. 
The black ourang-outang, in a young state ; 
the chesnut ourang-outang, in a young state ; the 
long-tailed macauco; the skunk ; the ermine, &c. 
In other Parts of the Room. 
The sea otter ; the musk, from Thibet ; the 
great armadillo ; the long-tailed Brasilian porcu¬ 
pine ; the Canada porcupine, remarkable for its 
thick form, the length of its hair, and the short¬ 
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 Ornithorhynchus paradoxus) from 
New Holland, the most singular of all quadrupeds; 
a large antelope ; the long-tailed manis or pan¬ 
golin ; the short tailed ditto ; sloths, in a very 
young state, one the two-toed, the other the three¬ 
toed species ; an elegant specimen of the least 
or two toed ant-eater. 
TWELFTH 
