INDEX OF SPECIES. 
Polynemus melanopoma, 387, 421. 
opercularis, 251, 383, 387, 424, 429. 
Pomacanthodes zonipectus, 383. 
Pomacanthus paru, 386. 
zonipectus, 386, 419, 
Pomacentrida, 390. 
Pomacentrus analigutta, 446. 
bairdii, 445, 446. 
flavilatus, 446. 
— leucostictus, 390. 
rectifranum, 390, 445, 446. 
Pomatoprion bairdii, 446, 
Pomeegra Dolphin, 23. 
Pontoporia, cervical vertebre of, 329. 
——,, systematic position of, 109-115. 
blainvillii, 106-109, 
, history of, 106. 
, mandible of, 109, 
— — , skull of, 107. 
, teeth of, 109. 
, vertebral formula of, 349. 
Porichthys porosissimus, 388. 
Porphyrio, 79, 515, 519, 520. 
Porpoise, 111. 
, short-snouted, 24. 
Potamogale, 1; characters of the genus, 15. 
velox, anal glands of, 13. 
, brain of, 14. 
—— — , caleaneum of, 13. 
—— ——,, carpus of, 12. 
, cloacal character of, 13. 
, ears of, 5. 
—, eyes of, 5. 
, femur of, 13. 
— , fibula of, 13. 
, fore limbs of, 5. 
, hairs of, 3. 
, head of, 4. 
——, hind limbs of, 5. 
——, humerus of, 12. 
, ilium of, 12. 
, ischium of, 12. 
, mandible of, 11. 
——,, metatarsals of, 13. 
, ossa innominata of, 9, 12. 
, ovaries of, 14. 
Bel rlach Oey tala is 
——, pelvis of, 12. 
poliocephalus, proportions of leg-bones in, 518. 
Potamogale velox, pubic bones of, 12. 
, radius of, 12. 
, rectum of, 13. 
, scapula of, 12. 
, Skeleton of, 8. 
, Skull of, 10. 
, soft parts of, 13. 
— — _, tail of, 6. 
, tarsus of, 13. 
—— — , teeth of, 6. 
—— —, tibia of, 13. 
, toes of, 5. 
, ulna of, 12. 
—— —, uterus of, 13. 
—— ——,, vagina and vulva of, 14. 
, vertebree of, 8, 9. 
Potamogalide, 15. 
Primates, 175. 
Prionodon, 490. 
Pristigaster argenteus, 487. 
— dovii, 395, 487. 
macrops, 395, 487. 
Pristipoma bilineatum, 414. 
chalceum, 386, 415. 
crocro, 386. 
dovii, 386, 414, 
— humile, 382, 384, 386, 415. 
— lewiscus, 386, 416. 
—— macracanthum, 386, 416. 
— melanopterum, 386, 414. 
virginicum, 386, 414. 
Pristipomatida, 386. 
Pristis antiquorum, 397. 
Promicropterus decoratus, 383, 412. 
Proteus, 517. 
Pseudochalceus lineatus, 384. 
Pseudojulis notospilus, 390, 447. 
Pseudorca, 115. 
—, trapezoid of, 362. 
crassidens, vertebral formula of, 349. 
Pseudorhombus brasiliensis, 392, 473. 
vorax, 473. 
Pseudoscarus guacamaia, 391. 
sanctee crucis, 391, 
Psophia, 72. 
, osteology of, compared in various points with 
that of the Kagu, 503, 504, 507-516,518—6520. 
crepitans, number of vertebre in, 511. 
