[297]

Bischoff, Lepidosiren paradoxa, Leipzig, 1840; Hyrtl, Abhand. d. böhm. Gesellsch. 1845, p. 637; also Bridge, op. cit. pp. 344, 345.

[298]

Turner, Journ. Anat. and Phys. xiv. 1879, p. 273. For references to other writers see Turner, op. cit.

[299]

For this information, which was based on an examination of a specimen, parts of which are now in the Cambridge University Museum, I am indebted to Dr. Harmer.

[300]

Van Beneden, quoted by Turner, op. cit. p. 282.

[301]

Andrew Smith, also quoted by Turner, op. cit. p. 281.