CETAC EA — PROBOSCIDEA. 
Mamm, 15 
^ ' Physeteridjs. 
W. H. Flower’s “ Further Contribution to the Knowledge of the 
existing Ziphoid Whales : Genus Mesoplodon ’* [cf. Zool. Rec. xiv. Mamm. 
p. 15], is printed in full ; Tr. Z. S. x. pp. 415-437, pis. Ixi.-lxiii. 
Hyperoodon rostratus in the Menai Strait ; H. Lee, Zool. 1878, 
pp. 13-15. 
Physetes macrocephalus. W. Turner has “Notes on some rare prints 
of stranded Sperm Whales”; J. Anat. Phys. xii. pp. 593-600. 
BALiENIDJ:. 
Balmna mysticetus. On its rudimentary finger-muscles ; J. Struthers, 
J. Anat. Phys. xii. pp. 217-227. 
Balmna {Macleayius) australiensis. A skeleton in the Paris Museum 
compared with the Tarento Whale [cf. Zool. Rec. xiv. Mamm. p. 15], 
which is referred to B. hiscayensis ; F. Gasco, C. R. Ixxxvii. pp. 410-412 ; 
cf. Ann. N. H. (5) ii. pp. 495-497. 
Balmnoptera sihhaldi. Note on two skeletons received by the Stockholm 
Museum ; F. A. Smith, Zool. Anz. 1878, pp. 365 & 366. Miinter de- 
scribes and figures two males ; MT. Vorpomm. ix. [1877] pp. 1-107. 
SIRENIA. 
^ P. Harting shows that the placenta is diffuse and non-deciduate, at 
least in Halicore [supr^, p. 5]. 
Manatid;e. 
Manatus australis. A second live specimen brought to England [cf. 
Zool. Rec. xii. p. 14] ; J. E. Harting, Zool. 1878, pp. 285-287. 
Halitheriid.®. 
Felsinotherium gastaldi^ sp. n. (foss.), — de Zigno, Atti Acc. Rom. (3) 
ii. p. 186, Pliocene of Piedmont. 
PROBOSCIDEA. 
Elephantid®. 
'^Elephas indicus. L. C. Miall and F. Greenwood describe its anatomy ; 
Part I;, Muscles of the Extremities, J. Anat. Phys. xii. pp. 261-287 ; 
Part II., Muscles of the Head and Trunk, tom. cit. pp. 286-400 ; Part 
III., General Observations, op. cit. xiii. pp. 17-50, pis. ii.-v. The above 
reprinted ; “ Studies in Comparative Anatomy ” [cf. supra, p. 6]. On 
its habits, both in a state of nature and captivity, see G. P. Sanderson’s 
“ Wild Beasts of India ” [supra, p. 7]. 
Mastodon productus, fully described and figured ; E. D. Cope, Wheeler’s 
Rep. Surv. W. of 100th Mer., iv. (1877), pt. 2, pp. 306-316, pis. lxx.-lxxii. 
