230 FISSI ROSTRAL SUBORDER OF 



32. Zacynthus(Zante). Obv. Head of Diana, to r. Rev. A quiver 

 within a wreath. Leg. ZA. Weight — 4i dwts. 



33. Leontini.* Obv. Lion's head, or lion-faced mask. Rev. A 

 palm-tree with fruit. Weight — 6i dwts. 



(b) MONARCHICAL. 



1. Agathocles of Sicily. (Died B.C. 289.) Obv. Head of Pros= 



erpine or Artemis, to r. Leg 20TEIP. . . . Rev. A winged 



fulmen. Leg. in two lines, APAOOKAEOIS BA2IAE02. 



2. Phintias of Agrigentum. (Lived B.C. 288.) Obv. Youthful 

 head, to 1. Rev. A boar.f Leg. BASIAEOS. . . . Weight— 4 dwts. 



3. Ptolemaeus I. and Berenice. (Died B.C. 283.) Obv. Head of 

 Ptolemaeus, to r. Rev. Head of Berenice, to r. Leg. BASIAEOS 

 HTOAEMAIOY. Weight— 1 dwt. 



4. Hieronymus of Syracuse. (Died B.C. 215.) Obv. Head of 

 Hieronymus, filleted to 1. Rev. A fulmen. Leg. BASIAEOS 

 lEPONYMOY. 



5. Ptolemaeus IX. (B.C. 107.) Obv. Head of Ptolemaeus in 

 Elephant scalp, to r. Rev. An eagle standing on a fulmen. Leg. 

 HTOAEMAIOY BA2IAE02. 



ON THE EAMILIES PROPERLY BELONGING TO THE 

 EISSIROSTRAL SUBORDER OP INSESSORIAL BIRDS, 

 AND THE REAL POSITION OF SOME WHICH HAVE 

 BEEN REFERRED TO IT. 



BY REV. WILLIAM HINCKS, F.L.S., ETC., 



PE0FE8S0E OF NATUEAL HISTOET IN UNIVEESITT COIXEGE, TOEONTO. 



When I laid before the Institute my views respecting the family 

 StruthionidiB, I stated my intention, should the opportunity be 

 allowed me, of communicating my conclusions upon some other dis- 

 puted questions relating to the arrangement of Birds, in pursuance 



* In Sicily, south of Catana, five miles inland. Here, in the 5th century 

 B.C., was born Gorgias, the celebrated statesman, orator, and sophist. 



t " Apri typus non sine ratione conspicitur, quippe venationi deditus somnium 

 vidit, exitum illi vitae repraesentans ; dum scilicet aprum venatur (Phintias), sus 

 in eum ruere, latus ejus ferire dentibus, et vulnere illato ipsum perimere visus, 

 Non caruit somnium eventu." — Easche vi. 1220. 



