20 BULLETIN 73, UNITED STATES NATIONAL, MUSEUM. 



Scapula — Continued. "*"!•■ 



Length of acromion "44 



Length of coracoid 59 



Humerus, length 107 



Radius, length HO 



LHna, length 100 



Pelvic bones, length 51 



niSTOKY OF THE ATLANTIC CITY SPECIMEN. 



Regarding tlio finding of the Atlantic City specimen and its exterior and 

 gross anatomy, nothing has been pubHslied except brief references by Sir WiUiam 

 Turner in 1889'' and Dr. Glover M. Allen in 1906,'^ taken from a newspaper report 

 of a communication made by myself before the Biological Society of Washington 

 in 1889. On tliat account a somewhat detailed statement regarding it will be 

 made in this place. 



This individual (PI. 41, figs. 1, 2) was a male, 12^ feet long. It was observed 

 by the crew of life-saving station Xo. 2.8, near Atlantic City, New Jersey, on the after- 

 noon of ilarch 28, 1889. It had come inside the bar which skirts the coast at this 

 point, and was apparently unable to find its way out. It was captured with some 

 difllculty, after being wounded in the throat, and was dragged up on the beach near 

 the station. Later in the day it was carried to the skating rink of Messrs. Johnson 

 &McShea, at Atlantic City, where it was exhibited until Monday, April 1. On 

 the next morning it was sent by express to Washington. 



I examined it for the first time in Atlantic City on March 29. It was then 

 Iving on the floor of the skating rink in such a position that the under surfaces were 

 concealed, and, as the teeth were not visible, I mistook it for a female. Upon its 

 arrival in Washington, however, where it could be examined under more favorable 

 circumstances, it proved to be a male. The following measurements were taken 

 from the fresh specimen : 



External dimensions of a specimen of M. europxiisfrom Atlantic City, Neir Jersey. 



Ft. in. 



Total length (in a straight line) 1- 'J 



Tip of beak to base of dorsal fin (along the back) 7 OJ 



Tip of beak to base of pectoral fin (along the back) - 11 



Length of pectoral fin along center 11 



Greatest breadth of pectoral fin 3} 



Height of dorsal fin (in a straight line) *> 



Length of base of dorsal fin 1 - 



Breadth of flukes (tip to tip) - H 



Depth of tail 14 inches in front of posterior margin of flukes 8i 



Tip of beak to angle of mouth 9i 



Tip of beak to eye 1 ^i 



1/ength of eye 1 



Breadth of blowhole ■* 



Tip of beak to right angle of blowhole 1 6* 



a From the inside, without the cartilaginous tip. 



b Proc. Roy. Phys. Soc. Edinburgh, vol. 10, 1S88-S9, p. 13. 



c Amer. Nat., vol. 40, 1906, p. 357. 



