EIGHTH ROOM. 
ROOMVIII. 
Nat. Hist. 
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 and 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 A.) Toucans, barbets, cuckoos, shrikes, 
&c. 
{Cases ^ andQ.) Grosbeaks, buntings, orioles, 
vrarblers, paradise-birds, king-fishers, &c. 
{Case 7d) Pigeons. 
{Cases S 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, 
wood-grouse, partridges, a specimen of the common 
wild pintado of Africa, adjutant crane, boat-bill, 
tufted umber, rose-coloured spoonbill, &c. 
{Cases 11 andl^l.) Scarlet curlew, scarlet flamin¬ 
go, x4merican avoset, darters, divers, &c. 
{Case 13.) contains some curious nests and eggs 
of birds; the soup-nests formed by a species of 
swallow; 
