1*2 NATURAL HISTORY. [MAM. SALOON. 
Cases 26—28. The various species of wallabees (Halmaturus '); 
the long-nosed kangaroos, and the rock kangaroos. 
Case 29. The jerboa kangaroos, and the rat-tailed kangaroos; the 
kangaroo hares; and at the bottom the koala of Australia. 
Case 30. The Australian Opossums, as the bandicoots ( Perameles ); 
the pig foot opossum; the daysures, the zebra wolf, and the Australian 
devil; the phascogales and the banded myrmecobii. 
Case 31. The Opossums of America. And below, a few of the 
smaller specimens of Seals, as the young of the harp seal, with its white 
fur, as it is when it is first born; and the young of the eared seal, from 
the Cape of Good Hope. 
Cases 32—52. The Hoofed Beasts. 
Cases 32, 33. The Yac ox, from Thibet; and two specimens of 
the small Indian humped cattle.. 
Cases 34—41. The various genera and species of Antelopes. 
Cases 42, 43. The various kinds of Goats. 
Cases 44, 45. The various kinds of Sheep. 
Case 46. The Llamas, from Peru, as the brown wild llama, and the 
more domesticated varieties, called Alpaca, which differ in colour, some 
being black and others variegated. In this Case is the black fawn of 
one of the black specimens. 
Cases 47—50. The different kinds of Deer, as the roebuck of Eu¬ 
rope, the axis of India, the ahu or tailless roe of Siberia. 
Case 51. The Musks, as the musk from Thibet and Siberia; the 
small kanchil and pelandor, from the islands of the Indian Ocean, as 
Singapore, Java, and Sumatra; the meminna, from Madras. 
Case 52. The ant-eater of South America. The pangolins of 
Africa and India. The armadillos of South America. 
Case 53. The sloth of South America. The water-mole or mul- 
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 water 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 
