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ROOM XI. 
Nat. Hist. 
large eel, furnished with two short legs, situated 
near the head, and three pair of branched gills 
on each side of the neck ; the Austrian siren, an 
extremely rare animal, an inhabitant of the lake 
Circnitz or Zitticher Sea, in the duchy of Carnio- 
lia ; it is about thirteen inches in length, and of 
a very pale or whitish rose-colour, with four legs, 
very distant from each other. 
Among the serpents, the most remarkable are 
the following, viz. rattle-snakes of different spe¬ 
cies, from North and South America ; the cobra 
de cappello, or spectacle snake, from the East 
Indies ; the horn-nosed snake, from the interior 
of Africa; the cerastes or horned viper, from 
Africa ; the sea green boa, with white bars on 
the back, from South America; the boa constric¬ 
tor, or great boa, from South America, a small 
or young specimen, the animal often growing to 
the length of twenty, thirty, or even more feet. 
In the glass case in the middle of this room 
are contained many specimens of dried fishes, 
&c. The most remarkable are the foliated pipe¬ 
fish, from New Holland ; and the Southern tra- 
chichthys : also a chamseleon dried. 
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