23 
this Case are some large Bats ( Pteropi ), from India and SALOON. 
New Holland 
Nat. Hist, 
Case 22 contains the small digitigrade carnivorous 
animals, as the Genet and Suricate ( Viverra genetta, and 
tetradactyla , Linn.), also some of the marsupial animals, 
as the Opossum, from Brazil, the Spotted Weasel 
(Dasyurus macrourus ), the Wombat, (Phascolomys 
fusca , Desm.), the Pigmy Opossum (Didelphis pygmcea, 
Shaw), the White Kangaroo {Macropus albus, Gray), 
and the Flying Opossum {Didelphis petaurus , Shaw), 
all from New Holland. 
The Case 23 contains the minor animals belonging to 
the order Glires, as the Water Rat, Dormice, Pouched 
Rat, Chinchilli, valuable for its peculia^soft fur, and a 
series of Squirrels from various parts of the world. 
Case 24 contains other animals of the same order; 
as the Flying Squirrel, Hare, Rabbit, and Porcupine; 
also some of the smaller Edentata, as two species of 
Armadillo {Dasypus duodecimcinctus, and minutus , 
Desm.), from South America; the long and the short¬ 
tailed Manis, the former from India, and the latter from 
Africa {Manis tetradactyla and pentadactyla , Linn.), 
—very young specimens of the two and the three-toed 
Sloth {Bradypus didactylas and tridactylus, Linn.), 
the Small Ant-eater {Myrmecophaga didactyla , Linn.), 
from South America; and the Ornithorhynchus, or 
Duck-billed Platypus, from New Holland. 
The forms of the Armadillo and the Manis, and the 
curious shields with which they are furnished by nature, 
are sufficiently wonderful; but the structure of the Or¬ 
nithorhynchus is so anomalous, that Dr. Shaw, who 
first described this “ most extraordinary genus” in the 
Naturalist’s Miscellany, hesitated whether to admit it 
into his History of Quadrupeds, in the first volume of 
his General Zoology,—for as the original description 
was given from the only individual at that time known, 
“ it was ”, he tells us, “ impossible not to entertain some 
doubts as to the genuine nature of the animal, and to 
surmise. 
