ADDITIONS AND COKRECTIONS. 391 



4. KOGIA (page 215). 



Substitute for generic characters :— 



The animal -will be described bj Professor Owen, and is described 

 by Mr. Krefft. 



The subcentral longitudinal ridge of bone that divides the con- 

 cavity of the cro^^^l into two parts is very sinuous, folded so as to 

 form a central funnel-shaped concavity. Beak as long as broad at 

 the base. 



The atlas vertebra . 



Kogia, Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1865, 529. 



Mr.MacLeay objects to the " barbarous" name oi Kogia ; but there 

 is no generic name that cannot be objected to when a person wants 

 to give a new one of his own. I have been asked, what does 

 Euphijsetes mean ? should it not have been Euphycetes, -with a c ? 

 It is often thus with names that are intended to have a classical 

 derivation ; the purist thinks the name is not well composed (in this 

 way a large number of tlie names of the more modern genera of 

 Glires have been altered by Mr. Brandt), or the name does not well 

 characterize the animal, or has been used for some other animal or 

 even plant, or for a country ; indeed any argument wiU do when a 

 naturalist is desirous of having his name apj^cnded to a genus dis- 

 tinguished by his predecessors. 



1. Kogia breviceps (page 217), add: — 

 Kogia brevirostris, Grai/, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1865, 529. 



2. Kogia simus. 



Physeter (Euphysetes) simus, Oictn, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1865, 511 (not 



described) ; Trans. Zool. Soc. (ined., animal and bones), fj^^ p yjj J*" f ' ' '^^ ' 

 Inhab. India. ifAvt r-r^-''*^ 



a. Cranium. India, coast of Yizagapatam, Madras Presidency. Pre- ^Arcf^ 

 seuted by Walter EUiot, Esq., of Wolfslee. 



3. Kogia Macleayii. 

 Euphysetes Macleayii, Knfft, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1865 (iued.). y </3 nAf*'^^ ' 



Inhab. Australia. ^.r^^.^^acJ'i'lt^ 



" A colt whale : total length 10 feet 8 inches ; width of tail 2 feet 

 8^ inches, pectoral fin 1 foot 7 inches ; circumference of body behind 

 the pectoral fin G feet 2 inches, behind the eyes 5 feet 1 inch, before 

 the dorsal fin or hump 5 feet 3 inches. 



" Black, yellowish beneath. Head with a short, thick, rather broad 

 snout, receding somewhat like a shark's; mouth small, upper jaw 

 toothless, showing two rows of holes communicating with each other 

 when the gums were removed, from which teeth may have been shed, 

 as they were not present when the gums were perfect, and therefore 

 cannot be for the reception of the teeth of the lower jaw. 



" The skull is very like that of Euphysetes Grayii, but the sides of 



