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compliment, whilst the paper is still in press, in time to 

 re-christen the bantling, which finally at page 477, 

 figures as the S. Leanus ! On the most critical exami- 

 nation the animals will be found to agree genericalty in 

 every point of the least importance. The reasoning 

 in the following paragraph of Dr. Hays 5 description, 

 we are unable to comprehend. u The most important 

 generic character which was supposed to distinguish 

 this animal from the one we described, [viz.: the ab- 

 sence of distinct and separate alveoli,] having no ex- 

 istence, it appears proper, in the present state of our 

 knowledge, to place the two species in the same genus , 

 and as the genus Saurocephalus is founded on erro- 

 neous characters, and will not admit our species, it be- 

 comes necessary to construct a new genus, which we 

 shall accordingly do, and shall retain for it the name 

 ' Saurodort "I 



Nothing can be more incorrect than the statements 

 here made, or more preposterous than the deductions 

 drawn from them. In the account of the Saurocepha- 

 lus lanciformis, in the Journ. of Acad, of Nat. Sciences, 

 p. 336, vol. iii., are the following paragraphs in direct 

 opposition to the above gratuitous assertions : 



" The row of teeth on the inferior, appear to have 

 passed within those of the superior jaw ; this supposi- 

 tion is further strengthened by the worn appearance of 

 the sides of the teeth. This arrangement of teeth, 

 which would require a peculiar configuration of the 

 jaw, together with the peculiar distribution of the max- 



