ALLEN'S BIBLIOGRAPHY OF CETACEA AND SIRENIA. 501 



1816-17. VIREY, , et [A. G.] DESMAREST Continued. 



tatun, Hunter, p. 176; 3O. Hyperodon Butskopf, Lacep., p. 176; 31. T). Sowerbensis, Blainv., 

 p. 177; 32. Epiodon urganantus, Rafines., p. 177 ; 33. *D. densirostris, sp. n., p. 178 (based on 

 a fragment of upper jaw) ; Dauphins fossiles, p. 179; French names of Dolphins, pp. 179, 

 180. 



Species 1-25 are described by Virey, with the interpolation of a short paragraph by 

 Desmarest in the account of no. 19, p. 167 ; species 26 to 33, as well as the remaining pages 

 of the article, are by Desmarest. 



Delphinus densirostris, Desrn., sp. n., p. 178. The 14 species marked with an asterisk, the 

 authors state (p. 151, note), are those whose validity is considered to be well established. 

 Jn concluding, they state (p. 178) : " Pour rectifer convenablement la synonymie de ces especes, 

 de nouveaux reneignemens nous soiit absolument indispensables " ; and for this purpose in- 

 vite travelers and naturalists to give special attention to their descriptions, and direct atten- 

 tion to points to be observed. 



In these articles the compilers have brought the subject thoroughly up to date ; they not 

 only include the species described since the time of Lacepede, but reject a few admitted by 

 that author. Although strictly a compilation, it well represents the state of the subject at 

 this date. [550.] 



1816-29. CUVIER, F. Dictionnaire | des | Sciences naturelles. | | Planches. | 2 

 Partie: Regue organise. | Zoologie. | | Mammiieres. | Par | M. Frederic 

 Cuvier, | Membre de 1' Academic des sciences, charge" en chef de la Mdnagerie 

 royale. | | Paris, | F. G. Levrault, libraire-eVliteur, rue de la Harpe, n. 81, | 

 Meme maison, rue des Juifs, n. 33, a Strasbourg. | 1816-1829. 8. pp. 1-13, 

 pll. col., i-c. 



Cetaces (=Sirenia -\-Cete), pi. xcvi, fig. 1, Lamantin ; pi. xcvii, fig. 1, Dugong des Indes, 

 fig. 2, Delphinorhynque (= Platanista) ; pi. xcviii, fig. 1, Dauphin vulgaire, fig.^2, Heterodon 

 a deux dents; pi. xcix, fig. 1, ^Narwal vulgaire, fig. 2, Cachalot macrocephale 1 ; pi. c, fig. 1, 

 Baleine tranche (altered from Martens?) fig. 2, Baleinoptere Rorqual. 



The plates themselves are not numbered, but iu the "table des planches" (p. 4-13) these 

 are numbered consecutively from 1-100, with a list of the names engraved on the plates and 

 reference to the volume and page of the Dictionnaire where the species are describe. [551.] 



1817. CUVIER, G. Le | Regne animal | distribue" | d'apres son organisation, | pour 

 servir de base a Phistoire naturelle des ani- | maux et d'iutroduction a 1'ana- 

 tomie compared. | Par M. le Ch er . Cuvier, | . . . . [titles, 5 lines]. | Avec Fi- 

 gures, desine"es d'apres nature. | Tome I, | contenant | 1'iutroduction, les Mam- 

 miferes et les Oiseaux. | Chez Deterville, Libraire, rue Hautefeuille, 11. 8. 

 | | De 1'imprimerie de A. Belin, | 1817. 8. pp. i-xxxvii, 1-540. 



This is the editio princeps of the celebrated Regne animal. 



Huitieme Ordre des Marnmife'res. Les Cetaces, pp. 271-287. 



Les Cetaces herbivores = Sirenia ; genera 1. Manatus, p. 273, 2. Halicore, p. 274, 3. By- 

 Una, p. 275 ; species not formally designated. 



Les Cetaces ordinaires=(?etae0a: Les Dauphins (Delphinus, L.), pp. 277-280. Les Dau- 

 phins propremeut dits (Delphinus, Cuv.), pp. 277,278. 1. Delphinus delphis, L., p. 278; 2. 

 D. rostratus, Shaw, p. 278; 3* D. tursio, Bonn., p. 278. Les Marsouins (Phoccena, Cuv., gen. 

 n.), p. 279; 4. Le Marsouin commun (D. Phoccena, L.), p. 279; 5. L'Epaulard (D. orca et D. 

 gladiator, Lacep.), p. 279. Les Delphiuapteres (Lacep.); 6. Le Beluga ou Epaulard blanc 

 (D. leucas, Gm., D. albicans, Pabr.), p. 280; Les Hyperoodons (Lacep.), p. 280; [7. D. eden- 

 tulus, Schreb.], p. 280. Les Narwals (Monodon, L.), pp. 280-282; 8. Monodon monoceros, 

 Lin., p. 281. Les Cachalots (Physeter, L.), pp. 282-284; [9. Cachalot macrocephale de Shaw 

 et de Bonn, non le macrocephale de Linne], p. 283. Les Physeteres (Lacep.), p. 284 [no species 

 formally recognized]. Les Baleines (Balcena, L.), pp. 284-286; 10. La Baleine franche (B. 

 mysticetus, L.), pp. 285, 286 ; 11. Le Xord-Caper (B. glacialis, Klein), p. 286. Les Balenopteres 

 a ventre lisse, pp. 287, 288; 12. Le Gibbar (Balcena physalus, L.), p. 287. Les Balenopteres 

 a ventre plisse, p. 287 ; 13. La Jubarte des Basques (Bal. loops, L.), p. 287. 



Phoccena, gen. n., p. 279. 



The treatment of the Cetacea here presented is strongly in contrast with that of Bouna- 

 terre, Lacepede, and their followers, and even with that of still earlier systematists. "While 

 Cuvier rejects many of the fictitious species of the early authors, recognizing but a single 

 species of Narwhal, and sagaciously hinting at the existence of only a single species of Ca- 

 chalot, he runs to the opposite extreme among the Fin-Whales, rejecting species as too 

 vaguely known that have since proved well-founded. "We have here the foreshadowing of 

 the wholesome conservatism later displayed by the author in his treatment of the Sirenians 

 and Cetaceans in his Ossemtens fossiles. [552. | 



