MAMMALIA 
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Rabbit . — Lepus cuniculus. 
Jenyns, p 35 ; Bell, p 428, 2nd ed., p 343 ; Blasius, p 427 ; Clermont, p 129. _ 
Common. “A black variety is sometimes seen, but this 
peculiarity is not propagated as in the white hare above men- 
tioned.” 
CETACEA MYSTACOCETI. 
Common Eoequal . — Balmnoptera musculus. 
Jenyns, p 47 ; Bell, p 520, 2nd ed., p 343 ; Blasins, p 534 ; Clermont, p 160. 
‘ ‘ Specimens of the Eazor-back are seen upon the Cornish coast 
every year feeding upon the smaller gregarious fishes. A speci- 
men was cast up at Falmouth, in 1863, and the skeleton is now, 
or was recently, at the Alexandra Palace, Muswell Hill. 
Another at Plymouth, in 1831, which had been observed fre- 
quenting the Cornish coast in pursuits of herrings for some time 
previously. 
Sibbald’s Rorqual . — Balmnoptera sihaUi. 
Bell, 2nd ed., p 402 . 
“ Rare.” One at Cadgwith, near the Lizard. It was 65 feet 
long, 24 inches in circumference, and the breadth of the caudal 
fin 13 feet. Dr. BuUmore. 
Beaked Whale . — Balcena rodrata. 
Bell, 2nd ed., p 411 ; Jenyns, p 47 ; Blasius, p 535. 
A specimen brought into Polperro, by the mackerel boats. 
May, 1850. Dr. Bullmore. 
OBONTOCETI. 
Sperm Whale . — Physeter mucrocephalus. 
Bell, 2nd ed., p 415; Blasius, p 532 ; Clermont, 157. 
A whale, supposed to be of this species, is sometimes seen off 
the Cornish coasts, says Mr. Couch, sailing rapidly along at a 
uniform elevation in the water, with its slender but elevated fin 
above the surface, while the body is concealed below. 
Humped Blower . — Physeter polyoyphus. 
At to this species I can only quote what is said by Mr. Couch. 
“I have unfortunately omitted to note the proper ref erence to any 
authority for the use of the trivial name here given, and which 
I had an opportunity of verifying, in a volume belonging to the 
Library of the Zoological Society of London. One specimen ran 
itself ashore in pursuit of small fish several years since ; and 
another was seen and minutely described to me by an intelligent 
