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ROOM XI. 
Nat. Hist. 
be specified the spoonbill (now seldom seen in 
this country), and the storks, with the herons 
and bitterns; the curlews, with the ibis, snipes, 
ruff, sanderling, &c.; the plovers, with the lap¬ 
wing, oyster-catcher, &c.; the rails, vi^ith the 
crake, gallinule. See. 
The eighth order, entitled Anseres, or web¬ 
footed birds (Cases 16 to 22), contains the 
grebes, with the guillemots, divers, &c; the gulls 
and terns; the petrels; the auks; the puffin; 
the pelicayi tribe, with the cormorant, shag, and 
gannet; the merganser or goosander ; the geese 
and ducks ; comprising the wild swan, the red¬ 
breasted, clakis and brent, bean and white-fronted, 
geese; the eider duck, from which the down is 
obtained, and the various other ducks, such as 
the scoter, pochard, shoveller, shieldrake, pintail, 
wigeon, teal. See. 
The collection of eggs is arranged along with 
the birds, in separate glass-cases, their numbers 
corresponding to those affixed to the birds. 
Cases 23 and 24, in the window-seat, contain 
nests, windpipes, and other parts of various Bri¬ 
tish birds, and in the cases below them are 
placed the nests of British birds. 
ALPHABETICAL LIST OF THE ENGLISH 
NAMES OF THE BIRDS IN THIS ROOM. 
Auk, 182. 207 
Avoset, 169 
Bean Goose, 216 
Bee-eater, 33 
Bittern, 134 
Blackcap, 35. 105 
Blackbird, 55 
Black Cock, 120 
Brambling, 69 
Brent Goose, 219 
Bultincli, 63 
Buntings, 
