750 General Notes. 
and birds, to the sudden ending of the great West-African forest." 
Five previous papers, by Drs. von Pelzeln and Hartlaub, have 
described former ornithological collections sent to Europe by Emin 
Pasha, so that it is not to be wondered at that this, the first consign- 
ment received at London, contains only four new species. 
Mammats.—In three papers (Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc’y, XXV.) 
Professor T. B. Stowell describes the glosso-pharyngeal, accessory, 
and hypoglossal nerves in the domestic cat. Three plates of 
diagrams illustrate the accounts. 
At the meeting of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, May 7, 1888, 
Dr. Alexander Bruce described a case of absence of the corpus cal- 
losum in the human brain. 
The skeleton of a second specimen of Swedenborg’s whale (Buba- 
lena swedenborgii) has been discovered in Norway. It is said that 
the original specimen was discovered in the early part of the last 
century in Gothland, and that the bones were regarded as those of 
Dr. A. Nehring criticises (Stz. Gesell. Naturf. Freunde, Berlin, 
1887) Gray’s genera of the Fish-Otters. Lutronectes is based on 
two immature specimens of Lutra vulgaris from “Te The genus 
Lontra of Gray, characterized by the hairiness of the muzzle, 1$ 
untenable, because founded on individual variations. Nehring 
regards Lontra braziliensis, Lutra enhydris, L. macrodus, L. s 
taria, L. paranensis, and L. platensis as nothing but local vana 
of one broad-fronted South American species. Pteronura 84 
bachii of Gray is regarded by Hensel as identical with 
braziliensis of F. Cuvier. Nehring also states (/.¢., p. 66), or 
to Gray and Wallace, that Canis hodophylax of Japan is not sc ad 
or serge with C. rutilans of Sumatra, but rather is to be associa 
with C. pallipes of India, 
Mr. A. Ee — 
specimens of thirty-nine species. E 
ae sex, and exact locality, in his own hand writing. 
