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TENTH ROOM. 
ZOOLOGY. 
The most interesting part of the collection of 
birds, serving to exhibit the general arrangement 
of the animals of that class, are contained in 
oases round the room. 
No. 1 to 4. Accipitres, rapacious birds, or 
birds of prey, amongst which are the Californian 
vulture ; a singular variety of the Pondicherry 
eagle ; and a species of owl from Africa, allied 
to the common white owl, next to which it 
stands. 
Nos. 5 and 6. The upper shelf contains the 
horned owls : second shelf, the spotted shrike, 
the black and yellow shrike, with other birds of 
that genus : third shelf, thrushes and orioles ; 
amongst which the yellow crowned thrush, the 
spendent thrush, and the black crested oriole, are 
the most remarkable : lower shelf, the Cape coly, 
nutcracker crow, Cornish chough, &c. 
No. 7 . Upper shelf the sanguineous pa¬ 
radise-bird, Abyssinian hornbill : second shelf 
various species of grosbeaks and sparrows : third 
shelf, warblers, flycatchers, and larks: fourth 
shelf swallows and goatsuckers, amongst which 
that rare species, the Sierra-Leone goatsucker is 
the most curious. 
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room x. 
Nat. Hist. 
Zoology* 
