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eyes, neck, back, feet, and organs of generation, and internal 
structure, differ little from those of the ass. Its voice is not un- 
like the neighing of the horse. Some of these details, however, are 
from hearsay, and others are vague. We hope to hear some- 
thing more satisfactory of this animal, now that so many travel- 
lers are visiting the regions where it occurs. Seme naturalists, 
we believe, are at present inclined to consider it as belonging to 
the camel tribe, and the genus Auchenia. 
34. Bottle-nose Whales. — On Saturday morning, the 7th Au- 
gust last, on the receding of the tide, two small beaked whales 
were observed stranded on the flat beach opposite to the town of 
Aberlady, in East Lothian. Each measured nearly 13 feet in 
extreme length, and, where thickest, between 8 and 9 feet in 
circumference. The one was a male, and had the back and sides 
of an ash-grey colour ; the other was a female, with the back and 
sides of a brilliant black. In both the belly was whitish. In the 
uterus of the female were two foetuses, each about 20 inches 
in length and apparently perfect: these were cut out by a 
sailor, who had been at the Greenland fishery ; and they were 
unfortunately destroyed or lost, before notice reached our cor- 
respondent, a naturalist residing in the neighbourhood. In both 
whales the stomach Was quite empty ; but the intestines contained 
a chyle of a fine yellow colour. No proper teeth were remarked ; 
but in the lower jaw there was a rugosity for about three inches 
in length. The flenching was commenced before the animals 
were cold : On the back the blubber was more than three inches 
thick ; but the layer of fat was thinner on the sides, and almost 
disappeared on the belly. Each of the animals was provided 
with a dorsal fin, situate near the centre of the body. The beak 
was about two feet in length ; and the extremity of the upper 
jaw was received into a triangular hollow at the end of the under 
jaw, as in the shoveller-duck. — There can be little doubt of these 
animals belonging to the species of Physeter, described by Hunter 
and Pennant under the name of Bottle-nose, or Beaked Whale. 
— Letter from Mr J. Lacey Thomson. 
35. The Dog originally an inhabitant of the New World . — 
M. Moreau de Jonnes, in the An. de Sciences Nat. for May 
1825, maintains, from relations of the European mariners who 
first visited America and the West India Islands, that they then 
