20 NATURAL HISTORY. [uPPER FLOOR. 
refuge and protection.—In this Case is the first Kangaroo 
ever imported into Europe; it was captured in the wild 
state, and was brought home by the celebrated circumna¬ 
vigator, Captain Cook: also the white Kangaroo {Macro¬ 
pus albus. Gray).—All the Marsupial animals, except the 
Opossums {T>idelp}iis), which are from America, come 
from the East, particularly New Holland. Here is also a 
fine specimen of the Wombat {Phascolomys Wombat^ Peron 
and Lesueur), and various quadrupeds belonging to the 
pachydermatous and ruminant orders, as the Pecary (Dico- 
tyles torquatiis, Cuv.), from South America, an animal 
closely allied to the Boar, but wanting the projecting 
canine teeth, or tusks, and the external toe of the hind 
feet of the latter: also some animals belonging to the Order 
Edentata (Bruta, Linn.), amongst which are several 
specimens of the Sloths, [Bradypus tridactylus^ Linn., 
and B. torquatus, 
The Cases 14—20 contain other animals of the Orders 
Edentata, Pachydermata, and Ruminantia,—as the Da¬ 
man, or Cape Cavy {Hyrax capensis^ Linn.); the Great 
Ant-eater [Myrmecophaga jubata, Linn.); a very young 
Giraffe, or Camelopard, brought from Africa by the late 
Lieut.-Col. Denham; several species of Antelope, the 
Small, and the Common Musk, and the Bouquetin des 
Alpes, or Ibex. Over these Cases are the Ursine Seal 
{Phoca ursina^ Linn.), an adult specimen of Weddell’s 
Sea-Leopard, and the Long-bodied Seal of Parsons 
[Halichcerus gryphus). 
Case 21 contains, besides the smaller species of the 
Order Primates, (see p. 18,) principally from the New 
world, the insectivorous animals, which form part of the 
order Ferae of Linnaeus ; as the Shrew Mice {Sorices) ; the 
Tanrec ( Centetes setosus, lllig.), from Madagascar; the 
common Hedgehog, {Erinaceus Europceus^ Linn.); and 
the Twpdim {Tupaia Javanica^ Horsf.), from Java. Several 
of the Weasel tribe are also contained in this Case, as the 
Polecat, Martin, Common Weasel, and Stoat [Mustelapu- 
torius, martes, vulgaris^ and erminea^ Linn.) The latter 
animal is of a pale chestnut-brown colour in summer, but 
becomes white in winter, and in that dress forms unimport¬ 
ant article of the fur trade, under the well known name of 
Ermine; the tip of the tail is black at all seasons of the 
