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EAST. ZOOL. GAL.] NATURAL HISTORY. 
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 Zubr or Aurochs and its skeleton, from the Forest of 
Lithuania. Presented by his Imperial Majesty the Emperor of all 
the Russias. 
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, weasels, 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¬ 
peds, birds and fish, as the golden eagle of the British Isles, &c.; booted 
eagle of Egypt; crested goshawk, of South America; Brazilian eagle; 
laughing falcorj, from British Guiana; harpy eagle of South America; 
bacha eagle of India and -Africa; Jean le Blanc eagle of Europe, 
Java, &c.; marine eagle, frdm Indian Archipelago; osprey, from 
various parts of the world; short-tailed falcon, from the Cape of Good 
Hope; and the Pondicherry eagle, from the continent of India, which 
bird is worshipped by the Brahmins. 
Case 18. The different species of Caracaras, which are peculiar 
to South America, as the red-throated falcon, chimachima, and the 
Brazilian kite. 
Cases 19—24. Specimens of Buzzards: they are sluggish, and 
pounce on their prey on the ground, as the craxirex, from Galapagos; 
Buzzard; and the rough-legged falcon of the British Isles. 
