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crystals, in beautiful groups of emerald green 
and yellow colours. The ores of tellurium or 
sylvane, which are divided into native tellurium , 
white and yellow (containing gold and iron); the 
graphic ore , so called on account of the disposi¬ 
tion of its minute laminar crystals into groups 
that bear a distant resemblance to written charac¬ 
ters ; and the black or Nagyag ore (commonly 
alloyed with gold and some lead).—The cerite or 
cererite (oxide of cerium) from Bastnaes, in 
Westmanland, in Sweden.—A specimen of the 
oxide of chromium, in quartz, discovered by M. 
Leschevin at Creuzot, in the Department of the 
Saone and Loire. 
EIGHTH ROOM. 
The most interesting part of the collection of 
birds, serving to exhibit the general arrangement 
of the animals of that class, is contained in cases 
round the room. 
Cases 1 to 3. Accipitres, rapacious birds, or 
birds of prey $ the Californian vulture ; a singu¬ 
lar variety of the Pondicherry eagle; horned 
owls, &c. 
Case 4. Various species of parrots, mackaws, 
and woodpeckers. 
Case 5 . Toucans, barbets, cuckoos, &c. 
Cases 6 and 7- Grosbeaks, buntings*, orioles, 
warblers, paradise-birds, king-fishers, pigeons, &c. 
Case 8. Small African bustard, pheasants, the 
h 2 jungle 
SALOON. 
Nat. 
ROOM VIII. 
