210 PKOFESSOK FLOWER OX THE EECENT ZIPHIOID WHALES. 



The specimens of animals referable to this genus preserved in museums are more 

 numerous than those of Ziphhis. They include : — 



1. An imperfect skull in the University Museum, Oxford, from the animal (a male 

 16 ft. long) obtained on the coast of Elginshire, figured and described by Sowerby (Brit. 

 Miscellany, p. 1, 1804) under the name of Physeter bidens, but to which the specific 

 name of sowerUensis or soiverbyi has since been generally attached. It is called I)el- 

 phinus [Eeterodon) soiverbensis by Blainville (Nouveau Diction. d'Histoire Naturelle, 

 2nd ed. tome ix. 1817, p. 177), and D. sowerbyi by Desmarest (Mammalogie, 1822, 

 p. 521). 



2. A skull in the Paris Museum, from a female specimen 15 feet long, stranded at 

 Havre, September 9th, 1825, described by Blainville (Nouv. Bulletin Sciences, Soc. 

 Philom. t. iv. 1825, p. 139) as the " Dauphin de Dale," by Cuvier (Regne Animal, 

 1829, t. i. p. 288) as Belphinus micropterus, by F. Cuvier (Hist. Nat. des Cetaces) as 

 Belphinorhynchus micropterus, and afterwards by other authors under a variety of dif- 

 ferent names, but now generally considered to be specifically identical with the first 

 mentioned \ 



3. A complete skeleton in the Brussels Museum from a young specimen stranded at 

 Ostend, August 31st, 1835, described by Dumortier (Mem. Acad. Royal. Bruxelles, 1839, 

 t. xii. tabb. 1-3) under the name oi Belphinorhynchus microjiterus. The skeleton sub- 

 sequently described by Van Beneden as MesopJodon sowerbiensis (Mem. Acad. Belgique, 

 coll. in-8vo, t. xvi. 1863)^ 



4. A skull and part of skeleton in the Museum at Caen, from Sallenelles, Calvados, 

 north of France, 1825 ; described by E. Deslongchamps (Bulletin de la Soc. Linn, de 

 Normandie, tom. x. 1866) as Mesoplodon sowerbyensis^. 



5. A mutilated skull in the Museum of the Irish Academy, Dublin, from an animal 

 15 feet long, stranded in 1864 in Brandon Ba)', Kerry, Ireland (Andrews, Trans. Roy. 

 Irish Academy, vol. xxiv. 1869, Ziphius sowerbyi). 



6. The skull of another specimen from the same locality, a male, about 17 feet long, 

 stranded May 31st, 1870 (Andrews, Proc. Roy. Irish Acad. ser. 2, vol. i. p. 49). 



7. A mandible in the Museum at Christiania, from the Norway coast, figui-ed and 

 described by Van Beneden (Bulletin de I'Acad. Roy. de Belgique, t. xxii. 1866) as 

 Mesoplodon sowerbiensis. 



8. A skull in the University Museum, Edinburgh, of unkno^\Ti origin. (I am indebted 

 to Professor Turner for information of this specimen, which has not yet been described.) 



9. A complete skeleton in the Gottenburg Museum, described by Malm {loc. cit.) 

 under the name oi Micropteron hidens. From the coast of Norway, 1869. 



All the above appear to belong to one species. 



10. A skull in the Museum at Caen, from an animal caught in the entrance of the 



' Figured by Tan Beneden and Gervais, op. cit. pi. 26. figs. 5-8. 

 '' Ibid. pi. 22. ^ Ibid. pi. 26. figs. 1-4. 



