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Rh Of deer we have but two, and these, the noblest of our feres naturd, are becoming very rare.

The roe-buck: the following passage from one of the author's cor respondents is interesting, and we do not recollect having seen the observations elsewhere in print.

Of the Cetacea or whales no less than fourteen are enumerated; the dolphin (Delphinus delphis), the bottle-nosed dolphin (D. Tursio), the porpoise (Phocana communis), the grampus (P. orca), the caaing whale (P. melas), the white whale (Beluga leucas), the bottle-head (Hyperoodon bidens), Sowerby's whale (Diodon Sowerbyi), the narwhal (Monodon monoceros), the spermaceti whale (Physeter macrocephalus), the high-finned cachalot (Physeter Tursio), the common whale (Balæna mysticetus), the finner or Rorqual (Balænoptera boops), and lastly, the northern manati (Rytina borealis), an animal of which we scarcely possess any information; its occurrence appears to have been purely accidental, the dead body having been thrown on shore