  In this paper we examine an interesting connection between the generalized
Volterra lattices of Bogoyavlensky and a special case of an integrable system
defined by Sklyanin. The Sklyanin system happens to be one of the cases in the
classification of Kozlov and Treshchev of Birkhoff integrable Hamiltonian
systems. Using this connection we demonstrate the integrability of the system
and define a new Lax pair representation. In addition, we comment on the
bi--Hamiltonian structure of the system.
