CETACEA, HY RACES. 
Mamm, 17 
capture of a specimen in Scotland, with description of its skull (the altar 
having been dislocated and subsequently anchylosed to the skull) ; 
W. H. Flower, P. Z. S. 1879, pp. 667-669. 
\| Orcella Jluminalis and 0. hrevirostris described, and the anatomy of the 
genus, including the structure of the pregnant uterus and foetal mem- 
branes, described and figured ; J. Anderson, Anat. &c. Res. W. Yunnan, 
pp. 358-416, pis. xxvii.-xliii. 0. hrevirostris figured, 1. c. pi. xxv. figs. 4 
& 5. 0. Jluminalis figured, pi. xxy. a. [See also infra.'] 
^ Platanista yangetica. Its structure and anatom}'^, including that of the 
pregnant uterus and foetal membranes, described and figured ; id. 1. c. 
pp. 417-550, pis. xxvi.-xliii. A m^^.p illustrating its distribution and 
that of Orcella Jluminalis ; 1. c. p. 359. The species figured ; 1. c. pi. xxv. 
figs. 1-3. 
Physeterid^, 
Mesoplodon. The structure of the teeth in 31. layardi and 31. sowerhii 
described ; W. Turner, J, Anat. Phys. xiii. pp. 465-480, and P. R. Soc. 
Edinb. x. pp. 250-252, 
Bal.®nid>e, 
On the geographical distribution of Balcenoptera ; P. J. Van Bene- 
deu. Bull. Ac. Belg. (2) xiv. pp. 167-178. [Omitted from Zool. Rec. xv.] 
Balcenoptera. On Indian species ; Anderson, 1. c. pp. 551-564, B. 
edeni and hlythi are indicated as new species. The skull and cervical 
vertebrsB of the former figured ; 1 . c. pi. xliv. 
Rachianectes. Additional note on this genus ; E. D. Cop6, Am. Nat. 
xiii. p. 655. 
Balcena hiscayensis. On the specimen captured in 1854 San Sebas- 
tian ; F. Gasco, Ann. Mus. Genov, xiv. pp. 573-608. 
Balcenus macleayius (= B. australis). Observations on ; id. I, c. 
pp, 509-551. 
Notes on the Tarento Balama, and the specin^eu in Paris of B. 
maclea.yius\ S. Capellini, Rend. Acc. Bologn. 1877-78, pp. 17-20, also 
F. Gasco, Atti Acc. Nap, [Not seep by the Recorder ; cf. Zool, Anz. ii. 
p. 609.] 
^Balamoptera. Note on the occurrence of a specimen of this genus at 
Soulac ; Act. Soc. L. Bord. (4) iii , p. xlix. 
Balcenoptera rostrata. Remarks ou this species ; G. O. Sars, Forh. 
Selsk. Chr. 1878, No. 15 (4 plates). [Not seen by the Recorder; cf. Zool. 
Anz, ii. p, 415.] 
HYRACES. 
HYRACIDiE. 
Hyrax nigricans, sp. n., W. Peters, SB. Nat. Fr. 1879, p. 10, Chinchoxo. 
1879. [voL. XVI.] B 2 
