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MISCELLANEOUS. 



Salmo cambricus. 



To the Editors of the Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 



Gentlemen, — I find that the name of Salmo camhricusy which 

 I have given to the Charr of Llanberris Lake, has been previously 

 used by Donovan for the Sewin of Wales. Therefore, to prevent 

 confusion, I propose to change the name of the former species into 

 Salmo Perisii. 



I remain, Gentlemen, 



Your obedient Servant, 



A. GiJNTHER. 



British Museum, Nov. 28, 1864. 



On the Cetacea of the French Mediterranean Coasts. 

 By M. Paul Gervais. 



After some remarks on the necessity of studying the osteological 

 characters in discriminating the species of Cetaceans, M. Gervais 

 states that he has been able to ascertain the existence on the French 

 coasts of the Mediterranean of nine species of those animals, belong- 

 ing to nearly as many genera. Upon these species he makes the 

 following observations : — 



1. The Cachalot {Physeter m.acrocephalus). — This species is 

 very rare, the occasional reported occurrence of individuals generally 

 referring to large species of Delphinidae. A true Cachalot was 

 taken in 1856, by the fishermen of Saint Nazaire; and a considerable 

 portion of its lower jaw is preserved in the collection of the Marist 

 Fathers, at La Seyne, near Toulon. 



2. The Ziphius {Ziphius cavirostris, Cuv.). — This species, long 

 regarded as fossil, really exists in the Mediterranean ; the specimen 

 of which the skull was described by Cuvier (Rech. Ossem. foss.) 

 was found by the fishermen of the Gulf of Bouc. Others have since 

 been obtained, and each of them has been described as a new species — 

 Delphinus Desmarestii, Risso (taken at Nice), D. Philippiiy Cocco 

 (Straits of Messina), Hyperoodon Doumetii, Gray (Corsica), and H. 

 Gervaisii, Duvernoy (Aresquies). 



3. The Grampus {Orca yladiator). — This species has only twice 

 been captured. One was taken about twenty -five years ago at Cette ; 

 its dental formula was j^. Another came ashore at Elne (Pyrenees 

 orientales) in 1857 ; but its lower jaw (the only fragment preserved) 

 contains only ten teeth, so that M. Gervais does not feel sure of its 

 being of the same species as the Cette specimen. It is also impos- 

 sible to say whether it may be identical with the Delphinus Feres. 



4. The Round-headed Porpoise (^Globiceps) . — The names 

 Delphinus melaSy D. deductor^ and 1). globiceps have been given to 

 a large oceanic species, the type of the genus Globiceps of Gray. 

 Similar species, if not mere varieties, have been brought from the 

 south coast of the United States, from Guadaloupe, New Zealand, 

 and the Japanese seas. 



