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be said to be indigenous, the reindeer and whales' bones 

 having probably been stranded there in the same way as the 

 drift-wood that is found on nearly all of the raised beaches. 

 In addition to these there is Le2ms horealis, but I do not 

 include this in the list, as its existence rests on such slender 

 evidence. 



1. Ursus maritimus. | ^and Mammals. 



2. Canis lagopus. J 



3. Rangifer tarandus. ) Probably stranded on raised beaches 



4. Balcena m,ysticetus. ) by drift-ice. 

 *5. Balcenoptera. 



6 Beluga leucas. 



*7. Monodon monoceros. Note. — Species new to the fauna of 



*8. Phoca foetida. Franz Josef Land are marked 



9. Phoca Grmnlandica. thus *. 



10. Phoca barhata. 



11. Trichechus rosmarus. 



Note No. 1. — Mr W. S. Bruce has requested me to examine 

 and report on some bones of Cetacea he collected in Franz 

 Josef Land. In the first instance I shall notice those 

 specimens which appear to me to belong to one and the same 

 animal. They are as follows : — A series of six anchylosed 

 cervical, two lumbar and one caudal vertebrae ; also the shaft 

 of a humerus with its loose proximal epiphysis. These 

 bones were all found not very far apart, and they 

 present exactly the same weathered appearances. The 

 lumbar and caudal vertebrae are minus their epiphysial 

 plates, so that the animal was not a full-grown adult: 

 besides, the shaft of the humerus, with its loose epiphysial 

 head and the absence of an unanchylosed distal segment, is 

 another proof of the same fact. The length of the shaft of 

 the humerus is 12J inches, and its circumference round the 

 centre 17| inches, so that the shaft is comparatively long in 

 relation to its girth. 



With regard to the species to which these remains belong, 

 it may be noted that the anchylosis of the cervical vertebrae 

 is one of the distinguishing characters of the spinal column 

 of the Eight Whale (Balcena mysticetus), and, further, that the 



