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ELEVENTH ROOM. 
In this room is deposited the collection of room xr. 
British Zoology. # The birds are disposed in nat. Hist. 
cases round the room, into the following grand 
divisions or orders :— 
The first order consists of the Accipitres, or 
Predaceous Birds (Cases I to 6) : it contains the 
genera Falco and Stria:(eagles ,, falcons , hawks, and 
owls). Among the species of the first genus may 
be distinguished two races : one of them compre¬ 
hending those birds named Noble, the greater 
portion of which were used in falconry, such as 
the peregrine falcon (including the supposed spe¬ 
cies named the starry , the blue-black falcon , and 
the lanner , of British writers), the hobby , the 
merlin (including what is called the stonefalcon ), 
the kestril , and the gerfalcon (of which the 
islandic and white gerfalcons are only varieties of 
plumage). Among the other species of this genus 
are the golden eagle (adult, and in that state of 
plumage in which it is called the ring-tailed 
eagle , together with the chick in two states of 
growth), the cinereous sea-eagle , (the varieties of 
which Jhave been distinguished as two species, 
named the white-tailed and common , or cinereous 
eagle), the goshawk (young of the second year, 
in which state only it appears to have been no- 
* With the exception of the table-case in the middle of the 
room, which contains a selection from the great collection of 
Insects illustrative of the orders and genera of this class. 
ticed 
