740 THE SPERM WHALES, GIANT AND PYGMY. 
not have been written Huphycetes, with a c?" The sug- 
gestion of Dr. Gray's questioner can scarcely fail to elicit a 
smile at the ignorance displayed in the question, or perhaps 
a laugh at the execrably complicated pun that may have 
been intended, and which appealed to evidently unappre- 
ciative ears. The name is a literal rendition of the Greek 
(Ev, augmentative, and 45577, blower), and, as explained 
by the framer, simply means “a good or easy blower." 
Notwithstanding, however, the objections to the name 
Kogia, we adopt it, as Professor Flower has also done, be- 
cause of its priority, while we recognize the justness of the 
criticisms upon it. But if we were to pursue the course 
recommended in repudiation of it, hosts of generally ad- 
mitted generic names would have to be superseded, among 
which would be most of those of the author of the name in 
question. Linné himself furnished a precedent for the adop- 
tion of names other than those derived from the classical 
languages, although Ae admitted such with cautiousness and 
a due regard for sense and euphony. Analogous names, 
proposed though they may be without like reserve, must in 
the judgment of the great majority of systematists be re- 
tained, lasting monuments to the discredit of their authors, 
and an opprobrium to zoology. 
EXPLANATION TO CUTS. 
= Skull of pies wae simus, seen from wot = 
100. se i & 
171. TE isoctad. 
172. Lower Jaw « Kogia Flowers; th the dotted lines indicate the approximate form of 
the hinder portion of the ram 
173. Skull of adult Physet er macresphatus seen from pod — 
ME he [r1 
SAI, Me i vai _Joneitmainaly “bisected, to show the relative 
size and Te gage - th ial * P 
occipital; so, supraóceipital ; etal?; s, squamosal; J; 
PARAL: ph, palatino; J; Jugal: uh, etyichyold ; Uh DAMIJAN, th, ibyieliysia. 
Nore. —An the figures of the ten illustrations of Cachalot (Physeter macrocephalus) : vti 
(Physeter sent a ceria in Trans, Zoo London, Vol. n, de 309-372, 1868, an ritiene 
us simus, from Professor oni i memoir “On some Indian qom cle by 
Walter Elliot, Esq.,” in Trans, Zool. Soc., London, Vol. vi, pp. 87-116, 1866. The lower jaw of 
Kogia Floweri is from nature. 
