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" (P. 28.) On the Platanistidce see especially: 



Cuvier : Recherches sur les Ossemens f ossiles, ed. 4, vol. 8, pt. 2, 

 1836, pp. 88-90, 128-132, Atlas, pi. 223, with figures of skull of 

 Platanista. 



Eschricht: Om Gangesdelphinen ; Kgl. Danske Vidensk. Selsk. 

 Skrifter, 5te R., naturv. og mathem. Afd., vol. 2, 185 1, pp. 345- 

 387, pis. 1-3. Platanista. Figures of exterior, skeleton, skull. 



Burmeister : Descripcion de cuatro especies de Delfinides de la costa 

 Argentina en el oceano Atlantico ; Anales del Museo Publico de 

 Buenos Aires, vol. i, 1864-69, pp. 389-445, pi. 23, 25-28. Ponto- 

 poria. Figures of exterior, skeleton, skull and other parts. 



Flower : Descr. of the skeleton of Inia geoffrensis and of the skull of 

 Pontoporia blainvillii, with remarks on the systematic position of 

 these animals in the order Cetacea ; Trans. Zool. Soc. London, 

 vol. 6, pt. 3, 1869, pp. 87-116, pis. 25-28. 



Van Beneden et Gervais : Osteographie des Cetaces vivants et f ossiles, 

 Text and Atlas, 1868-80, pp. 454-482, pis. 29-33. On almost all 

 the recent genera. 



Anderson : Anat. and Zool. Researches, compr. an Account of the 

 two Exp. to Western Yunnan in 1868 and 1875; 1878; pp. 417- 

 550, pis. 25, 26, 28-32, 34-41. Platanista. Figures of exterior, 

 skeleton and soft parts. 



Burmeister : Examen critico de los Mamif eros y Reptiles fosiles 

 denominados por D. Augusto Bravard ; Anales del Museo 

 Nacional de Buenos Aires, vol. 3, 1883-91, pp. 138-144, pi. 2, 

 figs. 12A-C. Pontistes. Figures of an imperfect skull. 



Burmeister : Adiciones al examen critico, etc. ; Anales del Aluseo 

 Nacional del Buenos Aires, vol. 3, 1883-91, pp. 451-460, pi. 8. 

 Saurodelphis. Figures of skull. 



Abel : Les Dauphins Longirostres du Bolderien des Environs 

 d'Anvers; Mem. Mus. Roy. d'Hist. Nat. de Belgique, vol. i, 

 1901, pp. 1-95, pis. i-io. Contains a section dealing with the 

 Platanistidcs both living and extinct, and on several plates gives 

 figures of their skulls, mostly copied from other papers. 



Abel: Cetaceenstudien, II, Der Schadel von Saurodelphis argentinus 

 aus dem Pliozan Argentiniens ; Sitzungsber. k. Akad. Wissensch. 

 Wien, mathem. -naturw. Kl., vol. 118, pt. I, 1909, pp. 255-272, 

 pi. I, and text figures. Tries to prove that Burmeister's figures 

 of the skull of Saurodelphis argentinus are to a notable degree 

 incorrect. Burmeister is said to have put together parts of two 

 different genera that should bear the names Saurodelphis and 



