210 PEOFESSOE FLOWEE OX THE EECEXT ZIPHIOID WHALES. 



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

 numerous than those of Ziphius. 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 biclens, but to which the specific 

 name of sowerbiensis or soiverbyi has since been generally attached. It is called Del- 

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

 2nd ed. tome ix. 1817, p. 177), and I), 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 Delphinus micropterus, by F. Cuvier (Hist. Nat. des Cetaces) as 

 DelpMnorhynchus 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 l . 



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 of DelpMnorhynchus micropterus. The skeleton sub- 

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

 coll. in-Svo, t. xvi. 1863) 2 . 



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, torn. x. 1866) as Mesoplodon sowerbyensis 3 . 



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

 15 feet long, stranded in 1864 in Brandon Bay, 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, figured and 

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

 Mesoplodon sowerbiensis. 



8. A skull in the University Museum, Edinburgh, of unknown 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 of Micropteron bidens. 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 



1 Figured by Van Beneden and Gervais, op. cit. pi. 26. figs. 5-8. 

 - Ibid. pi. 22. 3 Ibid. pi. 26. figs. 1-4. 



