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TWELFTH ROOM. 
This room contains a general and extensive room xii. 
collection of fishes, serpents, lizards, frogs, &c. Nat. Hist. 
as well as many specimens of quadrupeds, pre¬ 
served 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 ant-eater ; and the silky monkey. 
Among the frog tribe maybe particularized, the 
Argus-frog or North American spotted bull-frog ; 
the pipa or Surinam toad, remarkable for pro¬ 
ducing its young from numerous cells on its back ; 
the large tadpole of the frog called the paradoxical 
frog, a native of Surinam. 
Among the lizard tribe may be observed, the 
salamander ; the chamseleon; the guana ; several 
young crocodiles of different sizes and kinds; and 
in one bottle the egg of a crocodile, with a young 
one of a few days’ growth. The siren, from South 
Carolina, resembling in shape and colour a large 
eel, furnished with two short legs, situated near 
the head, and three pair of branched gills on each 
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