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ROOM XI. 
K AT. Hist. 
Wigeon, 226 
Wimbrel, 139 
Woodchat, 26 
Woodpeckers, 27. 29 Wood Wren, 93 
Woodcock, 155 Wrens, 97, 98 
Woodlark, 74 Wryneck, 30 
In the upright Cases in the centre of the 
room are placed the birds collected in the 
Northern Expeditions, and those presented by 
the Hudson s Bay Company. 
In the glazed Cases, over the British Birds, 
are placed (until greater space will admit of a 
more convenient arrangement) the larger species 
of Mammalia, and in the upright Case between 
the windows the smaller are deposited.. ^ 
Over the Case between the windows is placed 
a Porpoise caught in the Thames, and the - 
coriaceous Turtle^ described by Pennant in his 
British Zoology, caught on the Dorsetshire coast. 
The Table in the middle of this Room con¬ 
tains a selection illustrative of the orders and 
genera of the class Insecta, or Insects. . 
Case 1 begins with the Coleoptera, or 
beetles. 
(A) contains the families Cicindelidse, Cara- 
bidse (ground beetle), and Dyticidse, the water 
beetle. 
(B) the families Buprestidse, Elateridse (spring 
beetles), Telephoridm, Silphiadse (the burying 
beetle), Lucanidse (the stag beetle), &c. 
(C) the Geotrupidse, Copridae, and Scara- 
baeidae. In this last family will be seen the ce¬ 
lebrated 
