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Ziphius cavirostris, and Prof. Turner was thus enabled to 

 make a most important addition to the list of British 

 cetaceans. 



Cuvier's Whale was first described by that great 

 zoologist from a skull found in 1804 on the Medi- 

 terranean coast, in the department of Bouches-du-Rhone, 

 and is the type of the genus. It was then believed to 

 belong to an extinct animal, but several examples have 

 since occurred on the southern and south-western coasts 

 of France. A Whale stranded in Corsica, and described 

 by M; Doumet in 1842 as a Hyperoodon, is proved by its 

 skeleton, which is preserved at Cette, to belong to the 

 same species. One came ashore in May 1850, in the de- 

 partment of Herault, and has received the names of 

 Hyperoodon gervaisii (Duvernoy), and Epiodon desmarestii 

 (Gray), but it was regarded by M. Gervais as identical 

 with Z. cavirostris. A skull found on the shore of the 

 Bay of Arcachon in 1864, and preserved in the Museum 

 of that town, is recorded by M. Fischer ; and Prof. 

 Flower, in his paper " On Ziphioid Whales " in the 

 " Transactions of the Zoological Society (Vol. VIII.)," 

 informs us that a fifth specimen was taken at Villa 

 Franca in 1867, and that its skeleton, which has not yet 

 been described, is now in the Museum of the University 

 of Jena. There is also a complete skeleton of a Swedish 

 specimen in the Stockholm Museum, as mentioned by 

 Herr Malm in a recent paper in " The Proceedings of 

 the Royal Swedish Academy." 



Besides these European specimens, remains of recent 

 Ziphius have been brought from the Cape of Good 

 Hope and the east coast of South America ; these have 

 received the names of Z. indicus (Van Beneden), Petro- 

 rhynchus c«pews«s(Gray),and Epiodon australe (Burmeister). 

 The identity of these with Cuvier's Ziphius must remain 



