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saloon. « and the common Hedgehog ( Erinaceus ecau- 
datus ? and Europants, Linn.), and the Tupaia 
Javanica, from Sumatra,—a singular animal, 
described by the late Sir Stamford Raffles, in 
the Thirteenth Vol. of the Linnman Transac¬ 
tions. In this Case are also some of the minor 
marsupial animals, as the Spotted Dasyurus 
(D. Macrourus , Desm.), the Wombat ( Phasco - 
lomys fusca , Desm.), and the Pigmy Opossum 
(Didelphis Pygmcea, Shaw, — -Petaurista Pyg - 
mceus , Desm.), all from New Holland. 
Cases 22 and 23 contain various animals of 
the order Glires of Linnmus, as Hares, Rabbits 
and Porcupines; also some of the smaller Eden¬ 
tata (Bruta, Linn .), as two species of Armadillo 
(.Dasypus duodecimcinctus , Linn., and D. mi- 
nutus , Desm.), from South America; the long 
and the short-tailed Manis, the former from 
India, the latter from Africa (iff. tetradactyia 
and pentadactyla , Linn.),—very young speci¬ 
mens of he two and the three-toed Sloth (Bra- 
dypus didactylus and tridactylus , Linn.), and 
the Small Ant-eater ( Myrmecophaga didactyla , 
Linn.), from South America; and the Orni- 
thorhynchus, or Duck-billed Platypus, from 
New Holland. 
The forms of the Armadillo and the Manis, 
and the curious shields with which they are fur¬ 
nished by nature, are sufficiently wonderful; 
but the structure of the Ornithorhynchus is so 
anomalous, 
