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Dr. J. E. Gray, F.R.S., &c." (S. S. 3357 and 3420). They will then 

 at once perceive that the two seals and ten cetaceans, now appearing 

 as additions to our mammalian fauna, because omitted in the first 

 edition, are by no means recent discoveries or species having their 

 geographical range now for the first time extended to Britain, 

 inferences that might, I think, possibly be drawn from the passage 

 above quoted : they are recorded species, though not appearing in 

 the first edition of ' British Quadrupeds,' and possibly not anywhere 

 under exactly the same names. The ringed or marbled seal [Phoca 

 hispida), B. Q. 247, is enumerated as a British species at p. 3335 of 

 the « Zoologist,' under the name of marbled seal {Pagomysfcetidus), 

 the synonyms are the same, and the identical specimen, that in the 

 Norwich Museum, which is the sole authority for introducing the 

 species, was determined and labelled by Dr. Gray himself; then 

 again the hooded seal {Cystophora cristata), B. Q. 257, is mentioned 

 at p. 3334 of the same paper, and the specimen cited as the authority 

 for its admission into the British list is the same. Turning to the 

 * Zoologist' (S. S. 3361) we have the Atlantic right whale {Balcena 

 biscayensis, B. Q. 387) given under the name of Bala^na britannica ; 

 the humpbacked whale [Megaptera longimana), B. Q. 392, appears 

 under the same name, S. S. 336 1 ; Balaenoplera Sibbaldii, B. Q. 402, 

 will be found as Sibbaldius borealis, S. S. 3364; it is also the 

 BaliBnoptera boops of Yarrell (P. Z. S. 1840, p. 11); Rudolph's 

 rorqual {BalcBuoptera laticeps), B. Q. 407, is Rudolphius laticeps, 

 S. S. 3364; the lesser rorqual [Bnlcenoptera rostrata), B. Q. 411, 

 appears under the same name, S. S. 3364 ; the broad-fronted beaked 

 whale [Hyperoodon latifrons), B. Q. 425, is Lagenocetus latifrons, 

 S. S. 3431 ; Cuvier's whale {Xiphius caviroslris), B. Q. 428, is 

 Petrorhynchus caviroslris, S, S. 3431. It may be here observed 

 that the artist, probably not a naturalist, and not aware of this 

 character in Cetacea, has placed the tail vertically instead of hori- 

 zontally. Risso's grampus {Grampus griseus), B. Q. 450, is Grampus 

 Cuvieri, S. S. 3427; the white-sided dolphin {Delphiims aciUus), 

 B. Q. 470, is Electra acuta, S. S. 3426; the white-beaked dolphin 

 {Delphimis albirostris), B. Q. 472, is Lagenorhynchus albirostris, 

 S. S. 3426. All these species are, moreover, described in Dr. 

 Gray's 'Catalogue of Seals and Whales in the British Museum,' 

 with numerous figures in the text, and more modern ones in the 

 Supplement to the Catalogue, which are sold at a very small 

 price. 



