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^' (P. 43.) On the Physetcridcc see especially: 



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

 1836, pp. 117-247, Atlas, pis. 225, 228, with figures of skulls of 

 Physeter and Hypcroodon and parts of fossil skulls of Meso- 

 plodon, Chonoxiphiiis and Xiphius (all under the name 

 '"'' Ziphius " ) . 



Eschricht : Under.jjgelser over Hvaldyrene, 4de Afhandl., Om 

 Ngebhvalen ; Kgl. Danske Vidensk. Selsk. naturv. mathem. 

 Afhandl. iite Del, 1845, pp. 321-378, pis. 5-8, v^ith figures, 

 mostly of soft parts. Hypcroodon. On the dentition in the 

 embryo and other things. 



Owen : On some Indian Cetacea ; Transact. Zool. Soc. London, vol. 

 6, pt. I, 1866, pp. 17-47, pis. 3-14. Contains a section on 

 '' Cogia" under the name Physeter (Euphysctes). Exterior, 

 skeleton and skull are figured. 



Fischer : Memoire sur les Cetaces du genre Ziphius ; Nouvelles 

 Archives du Museum d'Hist. Nat. de Paris, vol. 3, 1867, pp. 41- 

 79, pi. 4, with figures of skulls of Xiphius cavirostris. 



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

 Text and Atlas, 1868-80, pp. 303-324, 514-518, pis. 18-27 bis, 

 61-63. All the recent genera and most of the fossils, among 

 them Xiphirostrum, Chonoxiphiiis, Hoplocetus. 



Burmeister : Descripcion detallada del Epiodon australe {sic) ; Anales 

 del Museo Publico de Buenos Aires, entrega quinta, 1868, pp. 

 312-366, pis. 15-20. Xiphius. Figures of exterior, skeleton, 

 skull, and other parts. 



Eschricht: Ni Tavler til Oplysning af Hvaldyrenes Bygning. med 

 Forklaring af Reinhardt ; Kgl. Danske Vidensk. Selsk. Skrifter, 

 5te R., naturv. mathem. Afd., vol. 9, i, 1869. On plates 6 and 

 7 are found figures of the skull of adult Hypcroodon and of the 

 exterior and skeleton of the fetus. 



Flower: On the osteology of the Cachalot or Sperm-whale (Physeter 

 inacrocephalus ) ; Trans. Zool. Soc. London, vol. 6, 1869, pp. 

 309-372, pis. 55-61. 



Owen : Monogr. of the British fossil Cetacea of the Red Crag ; 

 Paljeontogr. Society, vol. for 1869, 1870, pp. 1-40, pis. 1-5, and 

 with figures in the text. Mostly on the skull and " beak " of 

 "Ziphius" {= Xiphius, Chonoxiphius, Mcsoplodon, " Ber- 

 ardius " ) . 



Flower : On the recent Ziphioid Whales, with a descr. of the Skele- 

 ton of Berardius arnouxi ; Trans. Zool. Soc. London, vol. 8, pt. 

 3, 1872, pp. 203-234, pis. 27-29. 



