. The Annals and magazine of natural history; zoology, botany, and geology. Natural history; Zoology; Botany; Geology. Dr. A. Gunther on the British Salmonoids. 59 that animal, I am unable to speak concerning its external appearance. Therefore I believe it is better to describe the species in question under a new name, and I propose to you, if you please to accept it, that of Balcenoptera patachonica. " Since I have received the excellent books you sent me, and for which I give you my best thanks, I have found in them figures of the two skulls of Dolphins in the Buenos Ayres Museum. The l
. The Annals and magazine of natural history; zoology, botany, and geology. Natural history; Zoology; Botany; Geology. Dr. A. Gunther on the British Salmonoids. 59 that animal, I am unable to speak concerning its external appearance. Therefore I believe it is better to describe the species in question under a new name, and I propose to you, if you please to accept it, that of Balcenoptera patachonica. " Since I have received the excellent books you sent me, and for which I give you my best thanks, I have found in them figures of the two skulls of Dolphins in the Buenos Ayres Museum. The larger is your Delphinus Eurynome (p. 38, pi. 17), and the smaller your Delphinus microps (p. 72, pi. 25). Both are inhabitants of the Atlantic in our latitude. The new Phoccena is wanting in your list. I propose to give the name Phoccena spinipinnis to it, from the numerous spines on the dorsal fin. We have the entire animal, with the skull, which I will examine when it is taken from the dry skin in which it is enclosed. By the next French steamer I will send you an accurate drawing and complete description of ; " —I have told you nothing of the under jaw of Balcenoptera patachonica, because the surface of the bone is much destroyed by long exposure to the air, rain, and sun; but the hinder part, with the coronoid process, is represented in fig. ; Fig. A letter was read, addressed to the Secretary by Prof. J. J. Bian- coni, of Bologna, stating that, in the course of researches upon the osteology of the extinct genus Mpyornis, he had come to the con- clusion that that form belonged to the Vulturidee, and not to the Struthious birds. Dr. A. Gunther gave an account of the present state of his re- searches into the British species of Salmonoid fishes, which he had undertaken whilst engaged in preparing the catalogue of the speci- mens of this family in the collection of the British Museum. Dr. Gunther stated that the genus Salmo was essentially an ar
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