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NATURAL HISTORY. [SOUTH. ZOOL. GALL. 
Wall Case 12 contains the Prong-horn, or cabrit, from the Rocky 
Mountains and Texas, and its young. 
Wall Case 13. The caprine antelopes, as the goral and the jhaar, 
or thar, from Nepal. 
Wall Cases 14 to 18. The true Antelopes, or Gazelles, as the 
chiru, of Nepal; the colus, or siaga, and the gutturose antelope and 
jacron, from the Altai Mountains; Soemmering’s antelope, from 
Abyssinia; the mohr antelope, from West Africa; the spring bock, 
and the pallah, from the Cape; the sasing, or Indian antelope, from 
India; the rhee bock, and the peeli, from the Cape; and the nagor, 
from West Africa. 
The upper shelves contain the ariel, dorcas, and gazelle, from North 
Africa; the Senegal gazelle, the Indian gazelle, or chikara, from Ma¬ 
dras ; the grysbock and steinbock, and kainsi, or klipspinger, from the 
Cape; the madoka, from Abyssinia; and the pygmy antelope, from 
the coast of Guinea. 
Wall Cases 19 and 20 contain the crowned antelope, or bush goats, 
from Southern and Western Africa; the four-horned antelopes, from 
India; the ourebi, from South Africa. 
Wall Cases 21, 22, 23, and 24, placed between the doors, contain 
the Bats or Cheiroptera of various countries, especially the flying foxes 
or fruit-eating bats of Australia, India, and Australasian Islands, and the 
vampires or bloodsucking bats of tropical America, the Horseshoe 
bat, with their peculiar complicated apparatus on the end of the nose 
round the nostril. 
On the floor of this room are two giraffes, one from North Africa, 
and the other from South Africa, the latter presented by the Earl of 
Derby. Two Rhinoceri from Africa, a Manilla Buffalo, and a Morse, 
or Walrus, from the North Sea. 
THE SOUTHERN ZOOLOGICAL GALLERY. 
In the Wall Cases of this Gallery is arranged the continuation 
of the collection of the Hoofed Quadrupeds, as the Oxen, Deer, Camels, 
Llama, Horses, the various kinds of Swine, Armadilloes, Manises, and 
Sloths; on the top of the Cases the horns of different species of 
Antelopes; and on the Floor are arranged the different species of Ele¬ 
phant, Rhinoceros, Hippopotami, and Oxen. 
Cases 1 and 2 contain the different varieties of Llama; the wild 
ones are brown, and the tame varieties are black, white, reddish brown, 
and these colours intermixed. 
Cases 3 to 16 contain the differfnt species of Oxen and Elephan- 
fcidse. The white Scotch and Polish bulls; musk ox; aurochs, or Li¬ 
thuanian bison, from Lithuania, presented by the Emperor of Russia; 
and the North American bison, from the Rocky Mountains; the impo- 
foo, or eland, kudu or coudu, from South Africa; bosch bock, from 
South Africa and Abyssinia; Guibe, or bonte bock, from West Africa. 
The upper shelves contain the tapirs; as the mborebi, or tapir, 
from South America; and the kuda, ayer or tennu, from Sumatra; 
boar, from Europe, and its young; the bene, from North Guinea ; 
bosch vark; the valke vark, or emgallo; haruja, or halluf, from South 
Africa and Abyssinia; the pecari, or tajacu, and tagnicate, from the 
Brazils; the klip-das, from South Africa; daman, from North Africa ; 
