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THE WHALEBONE WHALES OF THE WESTEEN NORTH ATLANTIC. 



J., specimen, and of a scapula which I photographed at Baleua whaling station, are 

 shown in the accompanying text figures 45 to 48. See also pi. 7, figs. 5 and 6. 



Fig. 45. 



Fig. 46. 



Fig. 47. 



Fig. 4S. 



SCAPULA OF BAL^NOPTERA MUSCDLUS (L.). 



Fig. 45.— OsTEND, Belgium. Ad. s. (From Dubar.) Fig. 46.— Sweden. (From Van Beneden and Gervais.) 



Fig. 47. — Balena Station, Newfoundland. Ad. (From a pHOTonRAni.) Fig. 48. — Ocean City, 



New Jersey. Im. s . (From a photograph.) 



These figures show the strongly projecting anterior and posterior borders, 

 evenly convex superior border, and large acromion, characteristic of the Sulphurbot- 

 toms. What the range of variation in form may be in Eui'opean and Amei'ican 

 specimens, and whether specific differences could be detected, cannot of course be 

 determined at present for lack of material. It is to be expected that considerable 

 individual vai'iation will be found, and this is indicated in the two figures of scapulae 

 from American sp)ecimens, which while agreeing in general form, show differences 

 iu detail. 



The dimensions of scapulae in different specimens and the proportion of the 

 breadth to the height in the same are shown in the table on p. 187. The discrep- 

 ancy in propoi'tions, amounting to about 4 per cent., I am unable to account for. It 

 affects both the American and European specimens and is not, appai-ently, due to 

 difference in age or sex. The diameter of the glenoid fossa in the scapula of the 

 Ocean City skeleton is 13 in. by 9^ in. ; the greatest length of the acromion is 16 in. 



