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Jordan, David Starr, and James Zaccheus Gilbert. Fossil Fishes of" 
Southern California. II. Fossil Fishes of the Miocene (Monterey) 
Formations. Leland Stanford Junior Univ. Public., Univ. Series, pp. 13-60, 
1919. Delphinidse, p. 60. 
At the end of the second paper of this group, pp. 59 and 60, is an account, rather 
more than a page, descriptive of three slabs of stone which either contain impres- 
sions (matrices) of cetacean vertebrae, or the fossils themselves. They are all 
somewhat dubiously referred to Delphinus occiduus of Leidy which is in the same 
manner transferred to Phoccena. It seems unfortunate that such slight and 
uncertain evidence should result in a generic change for Leidy’s type, which is 
undoubtedly not congeneric with either of the names that have been used. The 
specimens are from San Pedro and Lompoc, Los Angeles and Santa Barbara 
Counties, in diatomaceous shales and of uncertain Miocene age. The essential 
synonymy of Delphinus occiduus Leidy, the type of which is in the Museum of 
Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, is as follows: 
Delphinus occiduus Leidy, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1868, 197 (type locality 
Half-moon Bay, Calif.); Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1869, 431; Cope, 
Am. Nat., 1890, 616; Trouessart, Cat. Mam., 1898, 1031; Hay, Bull. U. 
S. Geol. Survey, 179, Fossil Vert. N. Am., 1901, 594; Eastman, Bull. Mus. 
Comp. Zool., 1907, 93-94, plate 4, fig. 1 (type). 
Phocaena occiduus, Jordan and Gilbert, Leland Stanford Junior Univ. 
Public., Univ. Series, Fossil Fishes of Southern California, 1919, II, pp. 59,. 
60, plate IX, fig. 2; plate XXVIII, figs. 1, 3. 
— William Palmer. 
Allen, A. A. A Christmas walk with birds and beasts. Amer. Forestry, vol. 
25, pp. 1526-1530, 12 figs., December, 1919. (Popular account of tracks of 
common eastern mammals.) 
Allen, J. A. Severtzow’s classification of the Felidae. Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. 
Hist., vol. 41, pp. 335-340. September 22, 1919. (Discussion of status and 
type-species of the 27 subgeneric names applied to cats by Severtzow, 1857- 
1858; and comparison with Pocock’s “Classification of Existing Felidae,’^ 
1917.) 
Allen, J. A. Notes on the synonymy and nomenclature of the smaller spotted 
cats of tropical America. Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 41, pp. 341-419; 
figs. 1-31. October 3, 1919. (The following genera are recognized for Neotrop- 
ical cats, excepting jaguars andpumas : Leopardus Gray, type pardalis; Mar- 
gay Gray, type wiedii; Oncilla, new, type oncilla; Noctifelis Severtzow, type 
guigna; Oncifelis Severtzow, type geoffroyi; Lynchailurus Severtzow, type 
pajeros; Herpailurus Severztow, type yaguarondi. These include 37 forms.) 
Anderson, Rudolph Martin. Addition to list of mammals of Jasper Park, 
Alberta. Canadian Alpine Journ., vol. 10, p. 69. 1919. {Mustela rixosa 
taken on Miette River, July 11, 1898.) 
Beebe, William. Higher vertebrates of British Guiana. With special reference 
to the fauna of Bartica District. Zoologica, vol. 2, no. 7, pp. 205-227, May, 
1919. (Contains a preliminary checklist of mammals, including 119 forms.) 
