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in one bottle the egg of a crocodile, with a young nooxi xii 
one of a few days’ growth. The siren, from South ' 
Carolina, resembling in shape and colour, a largo 
eel, furnished with two short legs, situated near 
the head, and three pair of branched gills on each 
side of the nock ; the Austrian siren, an extreme¬ 
ly rare animal, an inhabitant of the lake Circnitz 
or Zitticher Sea, in the duchy of Carniolia ; it is 
about thirteen inches in length, and of a very pale 
or whitish rose colour, with four legs, very- distant 
from each other. 
Among the serpents, the most remarkable are 
the following, viz. rattle-snakes of different spe¬ 
cies, from North and South America; the cobra 
di Capello, or spectacle snake, from the East-In¬ 
dies ; the horn-nosed snake, from the interior of 
Africa; the cerastes or horned viper, from Africa ; 
the sea-green boa, with white bars on the back, 
from South America; the boa constrictor, or great 
boa, from South America, a small or young spe¬ 
cimen, the animal often growing to the length of 
twenty, thirty, or even more feet. 
In the glass case in the middle of this room, 
are contained manys pecimens of dried fishes, 
&c. T.he most remarkable are the foliated pipe¬ 
fish, from New Holland ; and the Southern tra- 
chichthys : also a charaaelecn dried. 
