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A list of 59 species, some of them of considerable interest, with brief 
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* Orcaella, subg. n., J. E. Gray, Cat. Seals B.M., 1866, p. 285, amended as 
Orcella by J. Anderson, P.Z.S. 1871, p. 142, appears to have escaped record both 
by Von Marschall and in Zool. Eec. iii. — Ed. 
