INDEX OF SPECIES. 
Manidia excavata, 528. 
lavinia, 528. 
— lunus, 521, 527, 541. 
phoebe, 527. 
selene, 527. 
Martin, skull of House-, 293. 
Megalema asiatica, 259. 



Megatherium americanum, 147. 
Meles, 88. 
taxus, bones of, from Genista Cave, Gibraltar, 
88. 
Menura superba, 311. 
Mesoplodon, genus, a further contribution to the 
knowledge of the existing ziphioid Whales, 
by W. H. Flower, 415. 
, general remarks upon the skull of, 419. 
——,, comparison of rostrum in the genus, 422. 
——,, dental characters of the genus, 425. 
——,, pectoral limb of the genus, 433, 
——,, skull of animals of the genus, 419. 
——,, vertebral column of the genus, 428. 
—— australis, 417, 419, 420, 421, 422, 423, 424, 
426, 428, 429, 430, 431, 432, 436, 437. 
, dimensions of the bones of the pectoral 
limb of, 434. 
—— ——, dimensions of the cervical vertebre of, 
430. 
—— ——,, principal dimensions of the crania of, 
424, 




, skull of, 421. 
, sternum of, 432. 
— bidens, 415, 417, 418, 421, 423, 425, 427, 429, 
433, 436. 
densirostris, 416, 417, 418, 421, 427. 
ewropeus, 416, 417, 418, 421, 427. 
floweri, 416. 
grayi, 417, 418, 419, 421, 422, 423, 424, 425, 
426, 427, 428, 429, 430, 431, 432, 433, 436, 
437. 
—_— ——.,, dimensions of the bones of the pectoral 
limb of, 434. 
—— ——, dimensions of the cervical vertebree of, 
430. 
—— ——.,, principal dimensions of the crania of, 
424, 






, sternum of, 432. 
gintheri, 416. 
—— haasti, 417, 419, 421, 422, 426, 437. 

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| Mesoplodon hectori, 416, 417, 418, 420, 422, 423, 
424, 426, 428, 437. 
, principal dimensions of the crania of, 


424, 
—— knowi, 417. 
layardi, 416, 417, 418, 421, 426, 427, 
429, 

longirostris, 416. 
sowerbiensis, 416. 
sowerbyi, 419, 425. 
Micronia aculeata, 514. 
astheniata, 514. 
caudata, 514. 
—— fasciata, 514. 
obtusata, 514. 
striataria, 514, 






Micropteron bidens, 416. 
Mitua salvini, 545, 546. 
tomentosa, 545. 


tuberosa, 545. 
Mivart, St. George. Notes on the fins of Elasmo- 
branchs, with considerations of the nature and 
homologues of vertebrate limbs, 439. 
— ——. On the axial skeleton of the Pelecanidi, 
315. 
—— —. On the axial skeleton of the Struthio- 
nide, 1. 
Mniotilta varia, 263, 311, 313. 
, skull of, 263. 
Moas, geological relations of the bones of, 185. 
Mollusca, on the mechanism of the odontophore in 
certain, by Patrick Geddes, 455. 
Motacilla flava, 290. 
yarrelli, 280, 289, 312, 314. 
, skull of, 289. 
Movia, 174. 
Muscicapa grisola, 287, 289, 291, 312, 314. 
, Skull of, 291. 
Muscisaxicola mentalis, 311. 
Mustelus antarcticus, 439, 441, 448, 445, 447. 
, caudal fin of, 441, 482. 
, dorsal fin of, 441, 482. 
——., pectoral fin of, 442, 482. 
, ventral fin of, 442, 482. 
canis, 467, 472. 
Myliobates aquila, 478. 
fremenvillet, 467. 
Nectarophila grayi, 298, 312, 314. 










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