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14. Grampus Cuvieri ; Delphinus griseus, Cuvier. 



The Rev. Charles Bury sent me the head of this species, which 

 was taken on the coast of the Isle of Wight in 1845. The ani- 

 mal is black above and whitish beneath, not gray as Cuvier's 

 name would indicate ; the figure first sent him from which he 

 described it was of that colour, and he mistook it for the real 

 one. 



15. Phoccena communis j Lesson ; D. Phoccma, Linn., F. Cuv. 

 Mam. Lithog. t. 



16. Beluga Catodon ; Physeter Catodon, Linn. S.N. from Sib- 

 bald ; Balcena albicans, Miiller ; D. leucas, Pallas. 



We have a fine large specimen of this species in the British 

 Museum. 



17. Monodon Monoceros, Linn. 



I may add that the characters of the genera and species are 

 given in the monograph of Cetacea in the Zoology of the Erebus 

 and Terror. 



The Tinner, Balcenoptera Physalus, appears to elongate the part 

 of the body between the fins as it arrives at maturity ; in the small 

 ones (females ?), from fourteen to twenty feet long, the pectoral 

 fins are about one-third, and the dorsal two-thirds of the length 

 from the end of the nose ; but in the larger specimens, male and 

 female, the middle of the body appears to lengthen twice as fast 

 as the other parts, for in these the pectoral is about one-quarter, 

 and the dorsal three-quarters the entire length from the end of 

 the nose. 



XIII. — Horce Zoologies. By Sir William Jardine, Bart., 

 F.R.S.E. & F.L.S. 



No. VII. Notice of some Birds from Western Africa. 



By the attention of a friend in Liverpool we have received a small 

 collection of birds procured by the vessels trading to the Bonny 

 and Old Calabar rivers, and as the species from these regions are 

 comparatively inaccessible to the naturalist, except under great 

 danger and privation, we have thought that a list, with remarks, 

 might not be unacceptable to the ornithological readers of the 

 ^ Annals.' One species we have been unable to reconcile with 

 any that has hitherto come under our notice, and have given it as 

 undescribed. 



Milvus parasiticus — difi^ers from specimens received from South- 

 ern Africa only in being slightly less and in the tint of the 

 plumage being more sombre. Old Calabar river. 



