[248] Grampus being a contraction of grand poisson is an obvious name to apply to any Whale.

[249] See Actes Soc. Linn. Bordeaux, 1881; and for another figure, also coloured, Flower, in Trans. Zool. Soc. xi. 1880, pl. i.

[250] Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus. No. 36, 1889.

[251] Zool. Jahrb. Syst. Theil, vi. 1892, p. 442.

[252] Anatomical Researches Yunnan Exp. 1878, p. 417.

[253] Flower, Trans. Zool. Soc. vi. 1867, p. 106; and Burmeister, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1867, p. 484.

[254] Proc. Zool. Soc. 1892, p. 558.

[255] Thompson, Studies Mus. Dundee, i. 1890; and C. R. Congrès de Zoologie, 1889, p. 225.

[256] Lydekker, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1892, p. 560.

[257] For a general account of the osteology, see Flower, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1869, p. 4; and for muscular anatomy, Windle and Parsons, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1897, p. 370, and 1898, p. 152.