334 MR. R. BROWN ON THE MAMMALS OF GREENLAND. [May 28, 



Phoca harbata. Fab., should have heen retamed as the type of the 

 genus Phoca*. 



Dr. Gray's nomenclature and classification of the Cetacea I have 

 followed almost literally, though some of his species, such as Lage- 

 norhynchus albirostris, L. leucopleurus, Delphinus euphrosyne {D. 

 holbollii, Eschr.), and llyperoodon {Lagenocetus) latifrons, are only 

 known from skulls or skeletons. The localities are also very 

 vaguely known ; so that in the absence of all details in reference to 

 their habits and distribution, and from the fact, moreover, of their 

 specific (and still more their generic) claims not being in every case 

 universally conceded, the physical geographer or naturalist (strictly 

 speaking) can have little to say regarding them. I have, however, 

 entered them as members of the Greenland fauna, in deference to 

 the opinion of their founder, who, since the death of the lamented 

 Eschricht stands alone in his knowledge of the systematic history of 

 the marine Mammalia. The following table will show the general 

 arrangement, the tribal and numerical distribution of the Mam- 

 malia of Greenland, exclusive of all introduced s]iecies and others 

 which have been erroneously included in former lists, and of the 

 first with whom Fabricius heads his fauna, " Homo sapiens, sine 

 deOy sine domino :" — 



MAMMALIA GRCENLANDICA. 

 Order Carnivora. 



Family Ursidae. 



Genus Ursus (Thalarctos). 

 U. maritimus, Linn. 



Family Canidse. 



Genus Vulpes. 



V. lagopus (Linn.), Rich. 



Genus Canis. 



C.familiaris, Lmn., var. borealis. 



Order Rodentia. 



Family Arvicolinae. 



Genus Myodes. 



M. torquatus (Pall.), Keys. & Bias, 



* Even Nileson's genus Ci/sto])hora, though faultless in aptitude, is liable 

 to the objection that it has also been applied to a genus of Algae by J. Agardh. 

 This awkward confusion, however, is so common that it is only just to criticise 

 the fault in the abstract. 



