14 Mamm. 
MAMMALIA. 
Mustelidji. 
Mustela putorius. An account of a case of hydrophobia resulting from 
its bite, qupted from the MS. journal of R. Marsham (1739) ; T. South- 
well, Zool. 1878, pp. 65 & 66. 
Maries. A Marten, referred to M. foina, killed in Cornwall ; E. H. 
Rodd, Zool. 1878, p. 127, id. J. Inst. Cornw. No. xx. p. 128. Still found 
in Cumberland; W. A. Durnford, Zool. 1878, p. 128. 
RhahdogaU lihyca and R. mustelina. On their characters; C. G. 
Giebel, Z. ges. Naturw. li. pp. 582-687. 
Pterura samhachi. On its skull and dentition ; 0. G. Giebel, tom. cit. 
pp. 313-311 ^ pi. XV. 
Ursidjj. 
Ursus labiatus. On its pharyngeal pouches and epimeral muscle ; 
— Alix, Bull. Soc, Philom. (7) i. 1877, pp. 47 & 48. 
Ursus prisons. On a skull from the bone-cave of Lherm, and on its 
specific distinction from U. speloeus ; H. Pilhol, op. cit. ii. pp. 19-25. 
Otariidj]. 
Otaria urslna. J. W. Clark describes and figures three specimens from 
the Pribilov Islands; P. Z. S. 1878, pp. 371-373, pi. xx. 
PnociDiE. 
-\ I. Sahlertz describes abnormalities in dentition, some probably caused 
by the retention of milk-molars [cf. supra, p. 7]; Vid. Medd. 1877, 
pp. 275-304. 
CETACEA. 
J. E. Harting, in a paper on “ The Distinguishing Character of the 
British Cetacea,” gives an abridgment of the account in the second edition 
of “Bell’s British Quadrupeds”; Zool. 1878, pp. 1-1.3. 
A. Starbuck publishes a very exhaustive “ History of the American 
Whale Fishery, from its earliest inception to the year 1876 ” ; Rep. U.' S. 
Comm. Fisheries, 1875-6 [1878], pp. 1-768, pis. vi. 
Squalodontidj;. 
Pachy acanthus ^ Brandt, = Priscodelphinus, De Bus [c/. Zool. Rec. xii, 
p. 14] ; G. Capellini, Atti Acc. Rom. (3) ii. pp. 49-62. 
DeLPHINIDJ]. 
Delphinus alhirostris, its occurrence on the Irish coast ; A. G. Moore, 
Zool. 1878, p. 292. 
Delphinus tursio at Plymouth ; J. Gatcombe, tom. cit. p. 66. 
Monodon monoceros. Note on a bidental skull [cf. Zool. Rec. x. p. 12] ; 
J. jGibson, P. Phys. Soc. Edinb. iv. pp. 257 & 258. 
