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the bag is cut off and tied up ; its contents are 
a soft, unctuous substance of the most powerful 
odour, which is the perfume in its natural 
state. 
Over these Cases, in the centre, is placed a 
specimen of the Ethiopian Hog. 
The want of more space in the large Cases, 
has rendered it necessary to place the smaller 
species of Mammalia, for the present, isi the 
upright Cases between the windows, on the 
north side of the room. 
Case 21 contains the small digitigrade car¬ 
nivorous animals, as the Genet and Suricate 
{Viverra genetla, and tetradactyla , Linn.), se¬ 
veral of the weasel tribe, as the Polecat, Martin, 
Common Weasel, and Stoat ( Mustela putorius , 
martes , vulgaris and erminea , Linn.). The latter 
animal is of a pale chestnut-brown colour in 
summer, but white in winter, and in that dress 
forms an important article of the fur trade, 
under the well known name of ermine ; the tip 
of the tail is black at all seasons of the year. 
These animals inhabit the northern parts both 
of Europe and Asia, and are very abundant in 
Norway and Siberia. The digitigrade carnivora 
of Cuvier, form part of the order Ferae of Lin- 
nasus, as do the small insectivorous animals also 
* 
contained in this Case, as the Shrew Mice ( So - 
rices, Linn.), the Common Mole ( Talpa Eu - 
ropcea , Linn.), the Tanrec, from Madagascar, 
and 
SALOON. 
