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Kat. Hist. 
EIGHTH ROOM. 
The most interesting part of the collection of 
birds, serving to exhibit the general arrangement 
of the animals of that^ class, is contained in cases 
round the room. 
{Cases 1 a7id 2.) Accipitres, rapacious birds, or 
birds of prey; the Californian vulture ; a singular 
variety of the Pondicherry eagle; horned owls, &c. 
{Case 3.) Various species of parrots, mackaws, 
and woodpeckers. 
{Case 4.) Toucans, barbets, cuckoos, shrikes, 
&c. 
{Cases 5 and 6.) Grosbeaks, buntings, orioles, 
ivarblers, paradise-birds, king-iishers, &c. 
{Case 7.) 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 screamer, 
w^ood-grouse, partridges, a specimen of the common 
wild pintado of Africa, adjutant crane, boat-bill, 
tufted umber, rose-coloured spoonbill, &c. 
{Cases l \ 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 ; 
