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those of the natatorial types in the other classes, we are struck with the 
analogy—* a blunt truncated muzzle, an obtuse head with strong jaws 
for seizing animal food.” The short intestines of the Platycara prove their 
habits to be carnivorous, and though the mouth is not very large the jaws 
are remarkably strong, composed as in the Gudgeons of two limbs soldered 
in the middle, but much stronger than in the instance referred to. Among 
birds, the Owls—the natatorial group of Raptores, and the Fissirostres in the 
circle of perchers, as well as most of the Natatores are distinguished above 
other birds for their breadth of wing, and the blunt or flattened form of 
the rostrum or the head, as has been proved by the philosophical analyses 
of the class by Vigors and Swainson.* 
46. For the next, or suctorial form (Plate 50, f. 1, 2,) we are indebted 
to two drawings in Buchanan’s collection, which are marked “ Stolephorus,” 
but the Stolephore (Hngraulis Cuv.) or Anchovies, belong to the Clupeide, a 
family remarkable for its narrow or compressed forms. The two figures referred 
to are not compressed nor sharp beneath, so that they could not belong to 
the genus Buchanan had in view when-he named them on the drawings, 
and this mistake he seems afterwards to have corrected, as the same two 
species appear unquestionably to be those described in the Gangetic Fishes. 
pp. 347-8, under the names of Cyprinus Sucatio and Cyp. Balitora.+ 
The muzzle of these species is remarkably flattened and thin, but there 
is nothing remarkable about the pectoral fins, and the eyes instead of 
* The Peciliane Schn. to which I have added a sub-genus Aplochelus, as well as the ad- 
joining genera with flat heads and teeth, I also refer to the same type. Plate 42, figs. 2 3. Plate, 
55, f. 4. 
+It was probably Buchanan’s descriptions of these species Mr. Gray had in view when 
he bestowed the name Badlitora on the genus which I now call Platycara. 
