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bittern, night heron, boatbili, tufted umber, and 
the white and rose coloured spoonbills, &c. 
Nos. 16 and 17 . Upper shelf ; scarlet curlew, 
the common African curlew, &c.: second shelf, 
long-legged plover, scarlet flamingo, &c.; third 
shelf, African snipe, varieties of the ruff, a 
ruff in its young state, and the reeve which is its 
female, &c. : lower shelf ; spur-winged jacana ; 
American and common avoset, &c. 
Nos. 18 and 19 - Upper shelf; great north¬ 
ern diver, several varieties of Darters, &c.: second 
shelf ; etherial tropic bird, terns, &c. ( ; third 
shelf ; ducks ; amongst them the lobated duck 
from New Holland is the most remarkable: 
lower shelf ; different species of merganser. 
No. 20. contains some curious nests and 
eggs of birds ; the soup-nests, formed by two 
species of swallow ; the nest of the taylor bird, 
&c. : in the lowermost division is deposited the 
supposed leg of the dodo, &c. 
The shells of molluscous animals are arranged 
in Cases 21 to 29 ; they were left to the Museum 
by the Rev. A. M. Cracherode. 
No. 21 . contains several species of the class 
Cerapoda; such as the bell balanus, spiny balanOs* 
turtle balanus, diadem coronula, horn-of-plenty 
barnacle, and the goose-bearing barnacle, which 
sometimes adheres to the bottoms of ships in such 
abundance 
room x. 
Nat. Hist. 
•Zoology. 
