Allen's bibliography of cetacea and sirenia. 463 



1771. OsBECK, Peter— Continued. 



are added, | AFaimula and Flora Sinensis. | In two Volumes. | Vol. I [-II]. j 

 London, | Printed for Benjamin White, | at Horace's Head, in Fleet-street. | 

 MDCCLXXL 8°. 



"Sxow-TVnrrE J>o?p/iiws (Delphinus Chinensis) tuniWcd about thoship; but at a distance 

 they seemed in nothing different from the common species, except in the white colour" 

 (vol. ii, p. 27). 



Under the name Delphinus Orca (vol. i, \>. 7) is a quotation from Egedo in reference to the 



"Northcaper" ! [318.] 



1771. [Pennant, T.] Synopsis | of | Quadrupeds | [By Thomas Pennant.] [Vignette.] 



Chester | Printed by J. Monk | MDCCLXXL | M. Griffith Del'. R. Murray 



So*. [Engraved title-page.] 8°. pp. i-sxv, 1-382, pi. i-xxxi+xiii bis. 



The author's name does not appear on the title-page, but the "Preface" is signed " Thomas 

 Pennant, Downing, March 20, 1771." 



Ifanati, pp. 351-358. A general account of the Sirenians as then tnown, which were thought 

 to constitute a single species. Pennant's references are here, however, mainly to Steller's Sea- 

 Cow and the American Manatee. Theie is also reference to the "Sea Ape" and the "Beluga," 

 the account of which, as hero given, is a curious mixture of truth and fiction. [319.] 



1771. Robertson, J. Description of the blunt-headed Cachalot. <^PhiJos. Trans. 

 Lond., Ix, art. xxvii, 1771, pp. 321-324, 1 pi. 



The plate represents the animal, the head, and the head in transverse section of "Physeter 

 Catodon Linnaei " ^Physeter macroccphalns. [320.] 



1771. "Trampler, J. C. Umstiindliche Beschreibung des Gronliindischen WaUisch- 

 fanges, ingleichen von den Ursachen und Eigenschaften des Nordlichts. Leip- 

 zig, Miiller, 1771. 8°." 



Not seen ; title from Bosgoed, op. dt, p. 248, no. 3570. [321.] 



1773. BoNAXNio, P. P. Rervm Natvralivm | Historia | nempe | Qvadrvpedvm Insec- 

 torvm Piscivm variorumqve marinorvm | Corporvm fossilivm Plantarvm exo- 

 ticarvm ( acpraesertim | Testaceorvm | exsistentivm | in Mv.seo Kircheriano | 

 edita iam | A P. Philippo Bonannio | nvnc vero nova methodo distribvta notis 

 illvstrata | in tabvlis reformata novisqve observatiocibvs locvpletata | a 

 lohanne Antonio Bkttarra Ariminiensi | Philosophiae Professore. | Pars Prima 

 [et Segvnda] | [Vignette.] Romae MDCCLXXIII. | In typographic Zempelli- 

 ano I Aere Venantii Monaldini Bibliopolae. | — | Praesidvm Facvltate. 2°. 

 pp. i-xl, 1-260, pll. i-xlvii. 



Piscis generis Cetacei, quem Capodoglio Itali appellant [^ Physeter macrocephalvs], i, pp. 

 157, 158, pi. xxxviii, figg. 34 (anim.), 35 (mand. infer.), 36 (vertebra). Description, with 

 measurements, and an original figure of a Cachalot 48 feet long, taken in the Mediteiranean 

 18 AprO, 1715. [322.] 



1773. MiJLLER, P. L. S. Des | Ritters Carl von LinmS | Koniglich Schwedischen, Leib- 

 arztes etc. etc. | vollst&ndiges | Natursystem | nach der | zwolf ten lateinischen 

 Ausgabe | und nach Anleitung | des hoUandischen Houttuynischen Werks | 

 mit einer ausfuhrlichen | Erklarung | ausgefertiget | von | Philipi> Ludwig 

 Statins Muller | Prof, der Naturgeschichte zu Erlang und Mitglied der Rom. 

 Kais. I Akademie der Naturforscher etc. | Erster Theil. | Von den | saugen- | 

 den Thieren. | — | Mit 32. Kupferu. | — | Numberg, | bey Gabriel Nicolaus 

 Raspe, 1773. 8°. 11. 11, pp. 1-508, 11. 7, pll. i-xxxii. 



II. Ordnung. Bruta.> Trichecus 2Ianatus, pp. 174-176. Tab. xxix, fig. 3. 

 VII. Ordnung. "Wallfischartige oder s&ugende Seethiere. Ccte. 1. 2Io7iodon Monoccros, 

 p. 477; 2. Balcena 2Iysticetus, ji. 481; 3. Balcena PJiysalus, -p. 491; 4. Balccna Boops, p. 492; 

 5. Balcena ilunculus, p. 492; 6. Physcter Katodon, p. 497; 7. Physcfer 2Iacrocephalus, p. 

 498; S. Physcter Microps, p. 501; 9. Physetcr Tvrsio, p. 503; 10. Delphinus Phoccena, p. 504; 

 11. Delphinus Dclphis, p. 505; 114. Delphinus Orca, p. 506. Auch der Pflockfisch, p. 493; 

 der Knotenfisch, p. 493; der Nordkaper, p. 494; der Sabelflsch (Epee do Mer), p. 507; der 

 Morder (Killer), p. 507; der Blascr (Souffleur), p. 508. [323.] 



1773. PisCATOR, LuBERTUS. "Brief van Lubeitus Piscator overdo visscherij, die bij 

 een loterij vcrgcleken wordt. — Oorzaaken van dcrzelvcr nfnecmen. — "Weder- 

 legging. — Middoleu ter verbetering oji do Walvischvangst." 



" Zie: Do Koopman of bijdr. ter opbouw van Nc6rlands koophandel en zeevaard. Amst. j 

 1773, iv. No. 5, 12, 13, 2.5, 26." 



Not seen; from Bosgoed, op. cit, p. 250, no. 3588. [324.] 



