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Show 334 MR. R. BROWN ON THE MAMMALS OF GREENLAND. [May 28, Phoca barbata, Fab., should have been retained as the type of genus Phoca*. Dr. Gray's nomenclature and classification of the Cetacea I have followed almost literally, though some of his species, such as Lagenorhynchus albirostris, L. leucopleurus, Delphinus euphrosyne holbbl/ii, Eschr.), and Hyperoodon (Layenocetus) latifrons, are only known from skulls or skeletons. The localities are also very vaguely known; so that in the absence of all details in reference to their habits and distribution, and from the fact, moreover, of their specific (and still more their generic) claims not being in every case universally conceded, the physical geographer or naturalist (strictly speaking) can have little to say regarding them. I have, however, entered them as members of the Greenland fauna, in deference to the opinion of their founder, who, since the death of the lamented Eschricht stands alone in his knowledge of the systematic history of the marine Mammalia. The following table will show the general arrangement, the tribal and numerical distribution of the Mammalia of Greenland, exclusive of all introduced species and others which have been erroneously included in former lists, and of the first with whom Fabricius heads his fauna, " Homo sapiens, sine deo, sine domino :"- MAMMALIA GRCENLANDICA. Order CARNIVORA. Family Ursidse. Genus Ursus (Thalarctos). U. maritimus, Linn. Family Canidae. Genus Vulpes. V. lagopus (Linn.), Rich. Genus Canis. C. familiaris, Linn., var. borealis. Order RODENTIA. Family Arvicolinae. Genus Myodes. M. torquatus (Pall.), Keys. & Bias. * Even Nilsson's genus Cystophora, though faultless in aptitude, is liable gardh. riticise ^»Cii ^iioauiiB genus y//scopnoru, ruougn lauitless in aptitude, is liable to the objection that it has also been applied to a genus of Algee by J. Agardh. This awkward confusion, however, the fault in the abstract. is so c o m m o n that it is only just to criticise" |