bC ) Mamm . 
MAMMALIA. 
I. MYSTACOCETI. 
a . Balasnidac. 
Bouvier, E. L. Lea Rorquals des Mers du Nord. Le Nat. 1888, pp. 
44-48, woodcuts. 
A popular account of the Rorquals of the North Sea, with their 
parasites. 
Struthers, J. Some Points in the Anatomy of a Megaptera longimana. 
J. Anat. Phys. xxii, pp. 109-125, 240-282, 441-460, & G29-656, pis. 
v, vi, & x-xii, and xxiii, pp. 124-163, pi. vi. 
An elaborate memoir (of which the first part was published in 1887) 
dealing in dotail with the anatomy of this Whale. The first part gives a 
figure of the external form of the entire animal, while the other plates 
illustrate the anatomy. The second part deals with the limbs. The 
third part, which is divided into tw r o sections, treats of the vertebral 
column. The second section of this third part treats of the cervical 
vertebrae, ribs, sternum, and chevrons, with figures of the altas and first 
ribs and sternum. The fourth part is reserved for 1889. 
Balcenoptera borealis. W. Crouch, Tr. Ess. Club, ii, pp. 41 & 46, 
describes and figures an example stranded at Tilbury, Essex, in 1887, and 
mentions another stranded in the Humber, in 1884. In Rochester Nat. 
1888, pp. 361-366, the same writer describes and figures another specimen, 
stranded in the Medway in 1888, the note on the Tilbury example being 
partly reproduced. Extracts from the article in Rochester Nat. are given 
in Zool. (3) xii, pp. 460-468. 
Balanoptera rostrata : F. H. Balkwill, Rep. Plym. Inst, x, pp. 120- 
122, woodcuts, describes a female caught off the Scilly Isles, and figures 
its otic bones, together with those of Grampus griseus. 
II. ODONTOCETI. 
b . Physeteridac. 
Capellini, G. Rostro di Dioplodon nelle Sabie Marnose Grigie della 
Farnesiua sotto Monte Mario. Boll. Soc. geol. Ital. vii, pp. 21-22. 
Mentions the rostrum of a Ziphoid Cetacean allied to forms from the 
English Red Crag. 
Pouchet, G. Note sur Involution des Dents du Cachalot. C.R. Soc. 
Biol. (2) v, pp. 503 & 504. 
Observations on the dentition of a foetal cachalot, supplemental to 
those previously made by the author. On pp. 558 A 559 of the same 
volume the author reaves some remarks on photographs of a cachalot. 
Wall, W. S. History and Description of the Skeleton of a New Sperm 
Whale in the Australian Museum, with some Account of a New 
Genus of Sperm Whales called JjJuphysetes. Sydney : 1887, 8vo, 
65 pp., 3 pis. 
A reprint by the Australian Museum of a paper published in 1851, 
