154 ON A SKELETON OF A WHALE IX THE 



III. In the Eiviere du Loup specimen there ar3 preserved 

 only a portion of the atlas and one caudal vertebra which is one 

 of the posterior portion of the series. 



IV This is a very fine and nearly complete skeleton. It 

 is well mounted and is in the Ottawa Geological Survey 

 Museum. 



For a copy of the following account by Mr. E. Billings, I 

 am indebted to Dr. Whit-eaves. u Several months ago, Mr. 

 Charles Poole, of Cornwall, wrote to the secretary of the society 

 that a large skeleton, resembling that of Ichthyosaurus, had 

 been found in the ne : ghborhood, by the men engaged in excavat- 

 ing clay for brick. In another letter be stated that Mr. T. S. 

 Scott had procured the lower jaws, and states that Mr. Scott 

 presented the jaws to the geological museum." Mr. Billings 

 then went to Cornwall and obtained from Mr. Poole the bones 

 which were in his possession. " These were discovered in Post- 

 pliocene clay about sixteen fe.et below the surface. They are 

 those of a small whale closely allied to the white whale, Beluga 

 leucas, which lives in the northern seas, and at certain seasons 

 abounds in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. The lower jaws are 

 nearly perfect. The skull and upper jaws are much damaged 

 and some of the part3 lost. Thirty-five of the vertebra?, the two 

 shoulder blades, most of the ribs, and a number of small bones 

 were collected. The length of the animal was probably about 

 fifteen feet. The lower jaws have the sockets of eight teeth 

 upon the right side and seven on the left." E. Billings, Cana- 

 dian Naturalist and Quarterly Journal of Science, vol. v., pp. 

 438-9. 



Some of the parts of this skeleton are more perfect than in 

 any other that has been found; but taken all in all, this and 

 the best specimen in the Montreal museum are about equal p and 

 both rather more perfect than the Vermont specimen. How- 

 ever, each has some portions that are lacking in the others. 



As mounted in the Ottawa museum the Cornwall whale is 

 twelve feet and one inch long. The cartilages have been sup- 



