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as he could cletoot no trotli whatever in its jaws, when tlie spoeinK^n was ])retty fresli, 

 and ho was tempted to coni-ludc tliat they must have been removed, tliouf^h no traeoa 

 of the operation could bo detected. Could this specimen have been a youiii^- llhinodon'i 

 The Sqiuihis maxiiitua is also called the Basking Shai'k by the whalemen, and aceordinf? 

 to Mr. Swinburne Ward, it has inoft'ensivo jaws, similar to the llhinodon, "and 

 probably feeds in mncli the same manner by crushing shells and sucking the contents." 

 At a place like Kurachi, where there is an actively pursued shark fishery, it should 

 not be difficult to find out what food these large but feebly-toothed sharks consume, 

 and the matter should be always niraembercd whenever an opportunity presents itself 

 for solving the question of the habits of the Squalus maximus. Mr. Swinburne Ward 

 remarks : " They are very ea.sily harpooned, but if, from the small size of the boat you 

 are in, you are obliged to give them line, they roll it I'ound their bodies, sink to the 

 bottom, and bury themselves so deeply in the sand or mud that nothing will move 

 them. Ilold on to them, and thej' are easily finished with the lances." 



PRISTIDiE (Pago 28G). 



. specimen of a snout of a Pristis, procured by me at Madras, measures four feet 

 iree inches, and how much is missing towards the head I can't say. The 



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and thrc .„...v„, „„.. ..^.. ...,.^.. ... ^ ...^ ..,..,. ^ ^.... ^ „.,j. ^..^^ 



' teeth ' are nearly equidistant, 16 on one side and 17 on the other, the first pair being 

 4 inches and the last pair 10 inches apart from each other across the snout. At its 

 base the snout is mesially a tritle over 2 inches in thickness. 



CATALOGTJE OF BATRACHIA SALIENTA, 

 liy Geokge Albekt Boulengee, 1882 (Page 289). 



B.\TR.A.CHI.\. 

 Order ECAUDATA. 

 Sub-order FnANEROGLOSSA. 

 Eustachian tubes separated. A tongue. 



Series FIRMISTERXIA. 

 Famihj Eanidae. 

 Maxillary teeth. Diapophyses of sacral vertebriE slightly or not at all dilated. 



a. Pupil horizontal. 



OxvGLOssus, Tschudi. 



0. LIM.4, Tschudi. Java. Siam. Camboja. Pegu. China. 



0. L.EVIS, Peters. Pliilippines. Pegu. 



Eana, Wagler. 



Tongue more or less deeply emarginate. Teeth on the vomer. Fingers perfedlij 

 free. Toes ivebhed, with sinqyle or dilated tips. Omersternum and sternum with a 

 bony style. 



Under Eana Boulengcr includes many species of truly arboreal frogs,' justifying 

 his so doing in the following words : "The study of the numerous species includid 

 here in Rana shows the impossibility of dividing them into genera, or even subgenera, 

 according to the dilatation or non-dilatation of the tips of the fingers and toes. The 

 (extreme fonns, viz. Eana hexadactyla and B.. afyhana, show indeed a very marked 

 dill'crence respecting the shape and structure of the fingers and toes, the former 

 having them pointed, the latter dilated into vei-y large disks supported by regularly 

 T-shapcd phalanges. But when we meet with such forms as li. Jfala/mriea, Ji. cur- 

 tijies, Ji. inguinalis, etc., we must hesitate before referring them to the ' Platydactyla ' 



' lias any one, I may ask, ever seen a Ratio, as hitherto understood, in a tree? 



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