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EAST. ZOOL. GAL.] NATURAL HISTORY. 
lingon, and the echidna or spiny ant-eater of Australia, which have 
beaks like birds. 
On the top of the Cases are arranged the different kinds of seals, 
porpoises and dolphins, as the common seal and the great seal; both 
found on the coast of England. The flat-haired seal; the leonine seal, 
or maned eared seal, from the Southern Ocean. The manatee, from 
Western Africa. The Cape porpoise, and the Cape dolphin; and the 
platanista, or long-beaked dolphin of the Ganges. 
On the floor, on the west side of the room, are placed the speci¬ 
mens which are too large for the Cases, and of the hard-skinned ani¬ 
mals which are not injured by exposure; as the black antelope, from 
Central Africa. The equine antelope ; the brindled knoo ; the impoofo 
or eland ; the w 7 ater bock; the koodoo, from the Cape of Good Hope. 
The wild ox, from Chillingham Park. A young giraffe, from Central 
Africa. On the other side is a large giraffe from the Cape, the skeleton 
of an elephant from India; the skeletons of a wolf from the Arctic re¬ 
gions ; of a kangaroo from New Holland; a seal, from the British 
coast; an American deer ; and of an Indian tapir, to exhibit the pe¬ 
culiarities of the bones in the animals of the different orders. A young 
hippopotamus, and the male, female and young of the wart-nosed pig, 
from South Africa. The Ethiopian hogs, from South Africa and Abys¬ 
sinia. The brown tapir, from America; and the black and white tapir, 
from Sumatra; the collared and wdiite-lipped peccaries, from Central 
America. 
In four Table Cases in this room, is arranged a series of the 
skulls of the smaller mammalia, to explain the characters of the order 
and families ; as, the skull of a monkey; of the slender loris; of the 
different kinds of fruit-eating and insect-eating bats ; the various spe¬ 
cies of dogs, cats, w T easels, mice, rats, squirrels ; the capybara; and 
the musk, from Thibet. 
EASTERN ZOOLOGICAL GALLERY. 
The Wall Cases contain the collection of Birds ; the smaller Table 
Cases in each recess contain Birds’ Eggs, arranged in the same series 
as the birds; the larger Table Cases , in the centre of the Room, 
contain the collection of Shells of Molluscous Animals; and 
on the top of the Wall Cases is a series of Horns of hoofed 
quadrupeds. 
Cases 1 — 35. The Raptorial Birds. 
They are subdivided into the following great divisions. The Di¬ 
urnal Birds of Prey are contained in Cases 1—30. 
Case 1. The Bearded Vulture of the Alps and Himalayan moun¬ 
tains. These birds live chiefly on carrion. 
Cases 2—7. Various species of Vultures, as the Alpine vulture, 
from North Africa; the black, carrion, and king vultures, from North 
and South America; the Californian, and condor, or great vulture of 
the Andes; the fulvous vulture, from Europe and Africa; cinereous 
vulture, from Northern Africa; sociable vulture, from South Africa ; 
and the Angola vulture, from Congo. 
Cases 8—30. The falcons, which are further divided : 
Cases 8—17. The different Eagles which prey on living quadru- 
