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EIGHTH ROOM. 
The most interesting part of the collection ofROOMvm. 
birds, serving to exhibit the general arrangement n a 7"h : st . 
of the animals of that class, is contained in cases 
round the room. 
(Cases 1 and 2.) Accipitres, rapacious birds, of 
birds of prey: the Californian vulture; a singular 
variety of the Pondicherry eagle; horned owls, &c. 
(Cases 3 and 4.) Various species of parrots, mae- 
kaws, and woodpeckers, toucans, barbets, cuckoos, 
shrikes, &c. 
(Cases 5 and 6.) Grosbeaks, buntings, orioles, 
warblers, paradise-birds, king-fishers, &,c. 
(Case?.) Pigeons. 
(Cases 8 to 10.) Small African bustard, phea¬ 
sants, the jungle-cock of India, which some have 
supposed to be the original stock from whence our 
domestic fowls have sprung; quails, horned scream¬ 
er, wood-grouse, partridges, a specimen of the com¬ 
mon wild pintado of Africa, adjutant crane, boat- 
bill, tufted umber, rose-coloured spoonbill, &c. 
(Cases 11 and 12.) Scarlet curlew, scarlet flamin¬ 
go, American avoset, darters, divers, &c. 
(Case 13.) contains some curious nests and eggs 
of birds; the soup-nests formed by a species of 
swallow; 
