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the three toed species ; an elegant specimen of 
the two-toed ant-eater. 
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TWELFTH ROOM. 
This room contains a general and extensive 
collection of fishes, serpents, lizards, frogs, &'c. 
as well as many specimens of quadrupeds, pre¬ 
served in spirits. 
Among the most curious of the fishes are the 
torpedo ; the electric gymnote, popularly called 
the electric eel; the remora, the flying-fish, &c. 
Among the quadrupeds the most remarkable 
are, a very fine specimen of the three toed sloth ; 
the two toed ditto ; the slender limbed macauco; 
the least ant eater ; and the silky monkey. 
Among the frog tribe may be particularized, 
the Argus frog or North American spotted bull¬ 
frog ; the pipa or Surinam toad, remarkable for 
producing its young from numerous cells on its 
back 5 the large tadpole of the frog called the 
paradoxical frog, a native of Surinam. 
Among the lizard tribe may be observed, the 
salamander; the chamseleon; the guana; several 
young crocodiles of different sizes and kinds ; and 
in one bottle the egg of a crocodile, with a young 
one of a few days’ growth. The siren, from 
South Carolina, resembling in shape and colour 
a large 
ROOM XT, 
Nat. Hist. 
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