cuvier's whale. 565 



It is hardly necessary to attempt to give a full account of the 

 literature of the subject in this preliminaiy paper, but it may be 

 convenient to refer to the lists of recorded occurrences given by 

 Turner (1872, p. 770), Flower (1872, p. 207), Van Beneden 

 (1888; p. 86), and True (1910, p. 30); the Memoir last cited 

 giving far the fullest account of the general characters of the 

 species at present published, and being accompanied by excellent 

 figures of skulls and other parts of the skeleton. 



With regard to published figures of the entire animal it may 

 be noted that some of the earlier representations are so different 

 from one another that, in the absence of other evidence, it would 

 be hard to believe that they all represented the same species. 

 Attention may, however, be directed specially to the following 

 published illustrations : — 



A Spanish specimen figured by Cabrera (1914, p. 380), who 

 records three specimens from Santaiider, Bay of Biscay ; 



Specimens respectively from Alaska and jSTewport, Rhode 

 Island, of which photographs are reproduced by Tiaie (1910, 

 pi. xli. figs. 3, 4). 



It may be noted finally that whether all recent specimens of 

 ZiphiiiiS are referable to a single species or not, there is every 

 reason to believe that the Irish specimens belong to Z. cavirostris ; 

 a conclusion reached with regard to the Shetland skull by 

 Sir William Turner. This species was named by Cuvier (1823, 

 p. 352) on the evidence of a skull obtained from the Bouches-du- 

 Rhone, at first regarded as a fossil specimen, but shown by later 

 writers to have been really that of a recent animal. 



Memoirs Cited. 



1888. Beneden, P. J, Van. — "Les Ziphioi'des des Mers d'Europe.'' 



Mem. couronnes Acad. Hoy. Belgique, Coll. in 8vo, xli. 



Mem. No. 2. 

 1914. Cabrera, A. — Fauna Iberica, " Mamiferos," Madrid, 



p. 376. 

 1823. Cuvier, G. — Recherches Ossemens Fossiles, Nouv. Ed. v. 



pe Partie, p. 352. 

 1872. Flower, W. H.— " On the Recent Ziphioid Whales." 



Trans. Zool. Soc. viii. 1874, p. 207. 

 1882. Gray, David. — " Notes on the Characters and Habits of 



the Bottlenose Whale [ifi/peroodon i-osirahis)." Proc. 



Zool. Soc. p. 726. 

 1880, Haast, J. VON. — " On Ziphms novce-zealandke" Proc, 



Zool. Soc. p. 232. 



1914. Harmer, S. F. — " Report on Cetacea stranded on the 



British Coasts dviring 1913." Published by the Trustees 

 of the British Museum. 



1915. Harmer, S. F. — " Report on Cetacea stranded .... during 



1914." Ibid. 



