14 Mam^n. 
MAMMALIA. 
Amphicyon palceindicus TFalconer, MS.), sp. n. (foss.), R. Lydekker, 1. c. 
p. 83, and Pal. Ind. Ser. x. 2, p. 66, pi. vii. figs. 6, 8, 12, Tortiaries of the 
Siwaliks. 
Otariid^. 
W. Peters has brief supplementary notes on this family ; he recog- 
nizes one species of Otona, four ot Eumetopias^ and eight ot Ar otocephalus. 
MB. Ak. Berl. 1877, pp. 506-507. 
Arctocephalus wilUamsi^ sp. n. (foss.), P. McCoy, Prodr-^alaeont. Viet, 
dec. y. p. 7, pis. xli. & xliv., Pliocene of Victoria. 
Trichechidje. 
d 
P. J. Van Beneden describes tind illustrates remaius of IVicliecus, 
Trichecodon^ and Alachthermm {of. Zool. Rec. xiii. Mamm. p. 13]. Ann. 
Mus. Belg. i. pp. 39-56, pis. i.-viii. 
PnociDJ^i. ^ 
P. J. Van Beneden has notes on recent Seals, and describes and illus- 
trates remains of the fossil genera Mesotaria^ Palceophoca, Platyphoca, 
Callophoca^ Platyphoca^ Gryphoca, Phocanella, Monatherium^ and Pro- 
phoca [of. Zool. Roc. xiii. Mamm, p. 13]. Ann. Mus. Belg. i. pp. 3-36, 
66-86, pis. ix.-xviii. 
'd Phoca hispida was the only Seal observed during Nares’s Expedition in 
the Polar Sea; W. H. Feilden, Zool. 1877, p. 359. 
Phoca groenlandica found fossil in Post-pliocene of the Ottawa River ; 
J. Dawson, Oanad. Nat. (2) viii. pp. 340 & 341. 
Halichcerus grypus : notes on its occurrence on the east coast of Scot- 
land ; R. Walker, Scott. Nat. iii. pp. 154-160. 
OETAOEA. 
G. Capellini has published a memoir on “ Balenottere f ossili e Pachy- 
acanthus dell’ Italia Meridionale,” Atti Acc. Rom. (3) i. pp. 611-630, 
pis. i.-iii., and describes Heterocetus guiscardii, sp. n. (foss.), p. 613. 
D. Cunningham gives notes on the spinal nervous system in this order. 
Rep. Brit. Ass. 1876, pp. 149-151 ; J. Anat. Phys. xi. pp. 209-228, pi. vii. 
J. Hector gives “ Notes on New Zealand Cetacea,” describing and 
figuring bones of Tursio metis and the outline of Glohicephalus macro- 
rrhynchus. He also figures skulls of Plectra clangula, Delphinus forsteri, 
Clymenia novoe-zealandice^ and C. ohscura. Tr. N. Z. Inst. ix. pp. 477-484 
pis. xi.-xiii.A. 
W. Turner, in “ A further contribution to the Placentation of the 
Cetacea,” describes the gravid uterus of Monodon monoceros. P. R. Soc. 
Edinb. 1876-1877, pp. 103-110. 
Delphinidji. 
F. W. Hutton gives notes on the New Zealand species ; Tr. N. Z. Inst, 
ix. pp. 349 & 350. 
