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EIGHTH ROOM. 
The most interesting part of the collection of room vili. 
birds, serving to exhibit the general arrangement nat. hist. 
of the animals of that class, is contained in cases 
round the room. 
(Cases 1 and 2 .) Accipitres, rapacious birds, 
or birds of prey: the Californian vulture ; a sin¬ 
gular variety of the Pondicherry eagle : horned 
owls, Sec. 
(Cases 3 and 4.) Various species of parrots, 
mackaws, and woodpeckers, toucans, barbets, 
cuckoos, shrikes, &c. 
(Cases 5 and 6 .) Grosbeaks, buntings, ori¬ 
oles, warblers, paradise-birds, king-fishers, See. 
(Case 7 .) Pigeons. 
(Cases 8 to 10 .) Small African bustard, phea¬ 
sants, the jungle-cock of India, which some have 
supposed to be the original stock from whence 
our domestic fowls have sprung ; quails, horned 
screamer, wood grouse, partridges, a specimen 
of the common wild pintado of Africa, adjutant 
crane, boatbill, tufted umber, rose-coloured 
spoonbill, &c. 
(Cases 11 and 12.) Scarlet curlew, scarlet 
flamingo, American avoset, darters, divers, Sec. 
(Case 13.) contains some curious nests and 
eggs of birds ; the soup-nests formed by a species 
of swallow ) the nest of the tailor-bird, Sec. On 
the 
