510 BULLETIN UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY. 



1821. Delavoipi^re — Continued. 



12-15. De r.imarrage, p. 15. Observation k I'Sg.ard dn Cacholot, p. 16. De Tamarrage a bord, 

 pp. 16-19. Manifere de d6couper la Baleine, p. 19. Disposition des caillomes et courans des 

 garans, pp. 20-22. Maniere de faire I'Huile, — Extraction dn Sperme et des Fanons, pp. 22-26. 

 Attaque de la Baleine dans les bales, pp. 26-28. Eemarques sur la pficbe, pp. 28-30. [598.] 



1821. Editors. Analysis of a Journal of a Voyage for the Discovery, &c. of a 

 North-West Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific, in the years 1819-20. 

 By Captain W. E. Parry, E. N., F. R. S. Lond. 1821, 4to., p. 479, with 20 Plates 

 and Charts ; and of A Journal of a Voyage of Discovery to the Arctic Regions. 

 By Alexander Fisher, Surgeon, E. N. 8vo. pp. 320. <^Edinb. FMlos. Journ., 

 V, no. 9, art. xxviii, 1821, pp. 177-196. 



A review of the ■works containing incidental references to Arctic Cetacea, including a 

 description of musical sounds made by the Beluga (p. 181). See 1821. Pisiiee, A. [599,] 



1821. Editors. Clay-slate Axe found in a Whale. <^Edinb. Philos. Journ., iv, no. 7, 

 1821, p. 216, pi. 3, fig. 11. 



Apparently the head of an Esquimaux lance, cut out of the blubber of a "Whale in Davis's 

 Strait. [600.] 



1821. Fisher, A. A | Journal | of a | Voyage of Discovery | to the | Arctic Regions, j 

 in I His Majesty's ships | Hecla and Griper, | in the years 1819 & I829. | — | 

 By I Alexander Fisher, Surgeon R. N. | ^ — | Fourth edition, corrected. | Lon- 

 don: I Printed for | Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, Paternoster- 

 Row. 1821. 8°. pp. i-xi, 1-320, chart, map, and cuts. 



Notices of Cetacea passim, to ■wit : Balcena Fhysalus, p. 23 ; Balcena Ifysticetus, p. 31 ; Be- 

 luga or "White "Whale, pp. 72-74 ; Monodon Monoceros, pp. 74, 83-87 (cut, p. 84, external char- 

 acters, and anatomical observations). 



The "Journal", tliough rarely cited in zoological literature, is ■worthy of attention, con- 

 taining many intelligent observations in natural history, and especially ia reference to birds 

 and Mammals. In regard to the latter, particularly important is the account of the Walrus 

 (pp. 38-43, ■with a cut), ■which gives weight and detaOed measurements of a specimen taken; 

 also those of the Polar Bear (pp. 44-40, cut and measurements), and the Musk-Ox (pp. 249-253, 

 259, cut, measurements, external characters, and habits). [601.] 



1821. Home, E. An account of the skeletons of the dugong, t^^o-horued rhinoceros, 

 and tapir of Sumatra, sent to England by Sir Thomas Stamford Baffles, Governor 

 of Bencoolen. <^PMlos. Trans. Lond., [cxi], pt. 2, art. xviii, pj). 268-275, i)ll. 

 xx-xxiv. 



Dugong, pp. 268-269; PI. xs, skeleton of a female. [602.] 



1821. Jameson, William. Narrative of a Voyage to Davis' Straits in 1820. <^Edinb. 

 Philos. Journ., v, 1821, pp. 309-318. 



A passing reference to Delphinvs leucas (p. 312) and a short description oi Monodon Tnono- 

 ceros (p. 317). [603.] 



1821. Montagu, George. Description of a Species of Delphinus which appears to be 

 new. <^Mem. Wern. Sog. Nat. Hist., iii, 1821, pp. 75-82, 1 pi. 



Description of Delphinus truncatus. Figures are given of the head and teeth. [604.] 



1821. Neill, Patrick, and [John] Barclay. Account of a Belugia, or White Whale, 

 hilled in the Frith of Forth. <^Mem. Wern. Soc. Nat. Hist., iii, 1821, pp. 371- 

 394, 2 pll. 



Description, measurements, and anatomy. [Also separate.] [605.] 



1821. Raffles, T. S. Descriptive Catalogue of a Zoological Collection, made on ac- 

 count of the Honourable East India Company, in the Island of Sumatra and 

 its Vicinity, under the Direction of Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles, Lieutenant- 

 Governor of Fort Marlborough ; with additional Notices illustrative of the 

 Natural History of those Countries. <^Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond., xiii, pt. 1, art. 

 xvii, 1821, pp. 239-274. 



On page 272 are five lines on '^Halicora Dugong." [606.] 



1821. Raffles, Thomas Stamford. Some Account of the Dugong. <CT'hilos. Mag., 

 Ivii, 1821, pp. 341-346. 

 External characters and anatomy." [607.] 



