NATURAL HISTORY. 
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and wild ass, and between the zebra and common donkey. Presented 
by the Zoological Society of London. Giraffe, or Camelopard. 
The upper shelves contain the young axis, or cheetul, fallow deer, 
and wapiti; kijang, or muntjac, from India; cugua£u-ete, and cugu- 
a£u~apara, from South America; the guazuti, from North Patagonia. 
Presented by C. Darwin , Esq. Roebuck, from Europe. Musk Deer 
—The musk; white-bellied musk; golden-eyed musk; meminna, or 
pissay, kanchil, and Javan musk, from Asia; and the water musk, from 
West Africa. 
On the floor of this Room are arranged the different species of Rhi¬ 
noceros, from South Africa and India; a small specimen of the Indian 
Elephant; a very young specimen of the African Elephant; and a 
young, a half-grown, and an adult specimen of Hippopotamus, from 
South Africa. 
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In the Wall Cases of this Saloon are arranged the specimens of 
Handed and Rapacious Beasts, and over the Cases are the different 
kinds of Seals ( Phocce ), Manatees, and Porpoises ( Delphini ); and on 
the Floor of the room are placed the larger hoofed beasts, which can¬ 
not, on account of their size, be arranged in their proper places in the 
Cases. 
Cases 1—20. The Handed Beasts. 
Cases l to 11 contain the Old World Monkeys: as the chimpanzee, 
from West Africa; adult male and young orang-otan, or pongo, from 
Borneo; siamang, from Java; gibbon, silvery gibbon or wou-wou, and 
oungka, from India, Java, and China; the simpai, chingkau, from Su¬ 
matra ; the kalasie and starred presbytes, from Borneo; the cinereous 
presbytes, dusky presbytes, from Singapore and Malacca; the croo and 
negro presbytes, from Java; nestor, from Ceylon, and hoonumam, from 
India, Nepal, &c. Presented by B. H. Hodgson , Esq. Temminck’s 
colobus; Pennant’s colobus; and black colobus, from West Africa; 
guereza, from Abyssinia; proboscis monkey, adult male, Borneo; 
presented by Mons. Temminck; and female and young, presented 
by Capt. Sir Edw. Belcher. Callithrix or green monkeys, from 
West Africa; grivet or tota, from Abyssinia; vernet, from the Cape of 
Good Hope; malbranck, from Africa; moustache, from Guinea; 
white-throated monkey, from India; samango, from South Africa; 
bearded monkey and red-eared monkey, and Burnett’s mona and 
haucher, from Fernando Po; the mona and diana, the white-nosed or 
vaulting monkey, and black-cheeked ascagne, and the talapoin, from 
West Africa; patas, from Africa and Senegal; white-crowned mon¬ 
key, sooty mangabey, and white collared mangabey, from Africa; 
rhesus, macaque, mungo or capped macaque, pelops, and bruk, from 
India; brilliant macaque, from Japan; black macaque, from the Phi¬ 
lippines and Celebes; wanderoo, from Ceylon; papion, from Africa; 
chacma, anubis, and baboon, from South Africa; gelada and tartarin, 
from Abyssinia; drill and mandrill, from Africa. 
The Cases 12 to 18 contain the New World Monkeys, from Tro¬ 
pical America. 
Cases 12—15. The coaita, chameck, chuna, marimonda, and brown 
spider monkeys, from Bolivia and Brazil; the thumbed miriki; ca- 
