feet in. 

 .. 1:0 



0:4 

 .. 0:9 



0:6 

 .. 0:6 



0:4: 

 ..2:1 



The general form was more slender than that of the mother ; 

 but the snout was shorter in proportion to its length, and instead 

 of being straight and somewhat tapering, had the shape of the 

 beak of a hawk, the upper mandible so to speak, having the 

 ridge sharply curved and bent over the lower one, though to a 

 much less extent than in such a bird. Its colour was rather 

 darker than that of the mother, and the lower parts were highly- 

 tinged with suffused blood; the snout was jet black. * 



The animal was sold to Mr. Gillingham, of Swanage, who in- 

 forms me that he obtained 220 gallons of oil from the blubber, 

 but probably it would have afforded much more, had he possessed 

 proper apparatus for boiling it down ; each pint of oil weighed 

 exactly a pound. By weighing one cart-load of the blubber when 

 cut up, and allowing for the weight of the bones, &c., the entire 

 weight of the animal was calculated to be nearly eight tons. 



The head and the cervical vertebrae will be deposited in the 

 Museum at Corfe. 



A female and a young one of this genus, were taken in 1854 

 in Portland roads, and are described by Mr. W. Thompson in 

 the November' number of The Annals and Magazine of Natural 

 History for that year. 



* Its position in the womb was straight, the head pointing towards 

 the tail of the parent. I am led to notice this fact, by remembering that 

 in a female Cachalot, Catodon Macrocephalus, dissected by Mr. Bennett, 

 the young one was in the position of a bent bow. 



LESTER LESTER, 



