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MAMMALIA. 
Otariidj), 
Otaria. J. W. Clark discusses the history, distribution, structure, and 
synonymy of the Eared Seals of Australia, New Zealand, and the adja- 
cent islands. Four species, 0. fosteri, 0. cinerea, 0. albicolis, and 0. 
hooTceri^ are characterized, and the dentition, snout, manus, pes, and other 
details of the first named are figured. P. Z. S. 1875, pp. 650-677, 
pis. Ixx.-lxxii. 
Arctocephalus nigrescens. The milk dentition described j A. W. Malm, 
CEfv. Ak. Forh. xxix. (1873) 7, pp. 63-68. 
Arctophoca gazella^ sp. n., W. Peters, MB. Ak. Berl. 1875, p. 396 ; 
Kerguelen-Land. 
Trichecid^. 
Trichecus rosmarus. On the age of fossil remains found in France ; 
Gr. A. Defrance, Bull. Soc. Geol. (3) ii. pp. 164-170. 
Phocidjj. 
J 
Phoca. J. C. G. Lucae’s comparison of the osteology and myology 
of the Seals with that of Otters and other Mammals \cf. Zool. Bee. x. 
p. 10] is continued. Abh. senck. Ges. ix. pp. 369-496, pis. i.-xviii. 
V W. Turner compares the placentation of the Seals with that of the 
land Carnivores [cf. supra, p. 4]. 
Genera incertj) sedis. 
The following apparently new fossil forms from the Eocene of New 
Mexico are referred to \_suprd^ p. 7] by E. D. Cope, in Wheeler’s Ann. 
Kep. Geog. Expl. & Surv. 1875, p. 94, and are referable either to this 
order or to the Insectivora [cf. supra, p. 8] : — 
Amhloctonus sinosus, g. & sp. nn. 
Oxycena moristans, lupina, and forcipata, g. & spp. nn. X 
Prototomus viverrinus, secundarius, multicuspis, and strenuus, g. & 
sppvUn. 
Pachycena ossifraga, g. & sp. nn. ^ 
Didymictis protenus, g. & sp. nn. .V ' ‘ ^ ’ 
, Diacodon alticuspis and celatus, g. & spp. nn. 
CETACEA. ; 
Gervais, P. Remarques sur les Bal^nides des Mers du Japon. C. R. 
Ixxxi. pp. 932-938. 
Hector, J. Notes on New Zealand Whales. Tr. N. Z. Inst. vii. 
pp. 251-265 [cf. infroL]. 
Munter remarks on the Cetaceans of the Baltic, which he regards as 
only visitors, and as much rarer than was formerly the case, as shown by 
the bones preserved in churches and castles. MT. Vorpomm. v. p. 31 
[not seen by the Recorder ; cf. Arch. f. Nat. 1875, ii. p. 74]. 
