496 BULLETIN UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY. 



1810. LEDRU, A.-R, et [C. N. S.] Soxxixi Continued. 



L'un cles Naturalistes de 1'Expedition, Membre de la Socie"t6 des Arts | du 

 Mans, de l'Acade"inie Celtique de Paris, du Mus6e de Tours, | Ex-Pro fesseur de 

 Legislation pres TEcole Centrale de la Sartho. | Ouvrage accompagne' de Notes 

 et d'Additions, | Par M. [C. S.] Sonnini. j Avec une tres-belle Carte gravde 

 par J. B. Tardieti, d'apres Lopez. | Tome Premier [et Second], | A Paris, | 

 Chez Arthus Bertrand, Libraire, rue Hantefeuille, n. 23. | | 1810. 2 vols., 

 8. Vol. i, 1, 1. pp. i-xlvij, 1-315, 1. 1 ; vol. ii, 1. 1, pp. 1-324, 1. 1. Map. 



Dauphin (Delphinus delphis Linii.), p. 2 (par Ledru), pp. 24-27 (par Sonniui). Marsouin 

 (Delphinus phoccena L.), p. 214 (par Ledru), pp. 221-224 (par Sonnini). Combat entre line 

 Baleino (Le Gibbar, Balcuna physalus L.) ot Scie (Squalus pristis L.), pp. 217, 218 (par Leclru), 

 Le Gribbar, pp. 220, 221 (par Soimini). Le Lamantin (Manatus australis Gm.), p. 238 (par 

 Ledru), pp. 294, 293 (par Sonuini). [515.] 



1810. PEROX, [FRAxgois], e< [CHARLES ALEXAXDER] LE LESUER. Notice sur 1'habi- 



tatiou des Animaux Marius. < Ann. du Mm. d'Hist. nat., xv, 1810, pp. 287-292. 



Balcena my'sticetus, p. 288. [516.] 



1810. VIBORG, E. [Supplementary note to J. A. Alber's " Undersogelse over Eenhior- 



ningens (Monodon Narwal) Hierte."] <^Kongel. Danske Fidensloab.-Selslc. 

 Slcrivter, for aar 1808, v, 1810, pp. 183, 184. [517.] 



1811. Axox. A Description of the Feroe Islands, containing an Account of their Sit- 

 } uation, Climate, and Productions ; together with the Manners and Customs 



of the Inhabitants, their Trade, &c. By the Rev. G. Laiidt. <^Quar. Eti'., 

 iv, 1811, pp. 333-342. 



Contains a few lines (pp. 338, 339) respecting the dread of the Feroese fishermen of "Whales, 



and their method of driving them away by the use of unpleasant odcrs, as castoreum and oil 



* of juniper! [518.] 



1811. Axox. ? [REXAUDOT, Abbe, translator.] An Account of the Travels of two Mo- 

 hammedans through India and China in the Ninth Century. Translated from 

 the Arabic by the Abbe" Renaudot. <^Plnlcer ton's Coll. Voy. and Trav., vii, 

 1811, pp. 179-230. 



Of Ambergris, pp. 222, 223. Ambergris is cast upon the coast of the Indian Ocean, and 

 is also found floating on the surface of the sea. "When a certain fish of the Whale Idnd, 

 called Tol, sees these floating lumps, he swallows the same, and is killed thereby." Then 

 men seize the dead whale and tow it ashore and take out the Ambergris. [519.] 



1811. FLEMIXG, JOHX. Description of a Small-headed Narwal, cast ashore in Zetland. 

 <Mem. We.rn. Soc. Nat. Hist., i, 1811, pp. 131-148, 1 pi. 



A short diagnosis, with synonymy of Monodon vulgaris and M. microcephalus. The plato 

 gives two figures of M. microcephalus. [520.] 



1811. G. Recherches d'anatomie compar<5e sur les dents, par 1. C. Cuvier. <^BulL de 

 la Soc. Philom. de Paris, iii. 1811, No. 62, pp. 1S5*-169* (i. e., 265-269). 



Dans le dugong et le narval, p. 165. [521 . ] 



1811. HERAUSGEBER. E. Home iiber eiuige Eigenthumlichkeiten des Gehororgans des 

 Wallfisches (Balaena mysticetus). (Ausden Philosoph. Tr., 1811, p. i.) <Deut- 

 sches Archiv f. d. Physiol., iii, 1817, pp. 137-139. 



Auszug. [522.] 



1811. ILLIGER, C. Caroli Illigeri D. | Acad. Reg. Scient. Berolinens. et Bavaricae 

 sod. | Museo Zoologico Berolin. Praefecti, | Professoris extraod. | Prodromus | 

 Systematis | Mammalium et Avium | additis | Termiuis zoographicus utrius- 

 que Classis, | eorumque | versioue Germanica. | | . . . . [ = Motto, 3 lines. ] 

 | | Beroliui | Surnptibus C. Salfeld | 1811. 8. pp. i-xviii, 1-302. 

 Sirenia, pp. 140, 141. Genera, 1. Manatus, 2. Halicore, 3. Itytina. 2 et 3 genn. nn. 

 Cete, pp. 141-144. 1. Balaena [Linn, et auct. var.] ; 2. Ccratodon (ex Briss. Monodon, 

 Linn., Diodon, Storr, Narwalus, Lac6p.); 3. Ancyclodon [gen. n. Anarnacus, Lacep.]; 4. 

 Physeter [Linn, et auct. var.] ; S. Delphinus [Linn, et auct. var. ] ; 6. Uranodon [gen. n. = Hy- 

 peroodon, Lac6p.]. Cum charac. gener. [523. | 



1811. K^MPFER, E. The History of Japan. By Engelbert Kempfer, M. D. Physician 

 to the Dutch Embassy to the Emperor's Court; and translated from his orig- 



