Dr. H. Burmeister on a new Whale. 



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suture between the frontal bone and the parietal is situated much 

 more towards the external part of the frontal bone, being in my skull 



Fig. 1. 



Skull seen from above. 



exactly in the angle where both bones are united, and therefore not 

 seen from above in my drawing. Another difference of the species 



Fig. 2. 



First cervical vertebra 



is indicated by the longitudinal carina in the vertex of tbe Cape spe- 

 cies, there being no trace of such carina in either of my specimens. 



