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The bones have a much fresher appearance than those of the 

 other fossils here recorded. Dr. Dawson cays of these: " I have 

 no doubt that they belong to the Humpback Whale, Megaptem 

 longimanas (hoops). 



VII. In Canadian Ice Age, page 269, Dr. Dawsoii writes: 

 " I secured last summer, 1891, a large jaw-bone found in dig- 

 ging a cellar in the shelly gravel of the lower terrace at Metis." 

 This fragment, for the interior portion is wanting, is over eleven 

 feet long and eighteen inches wide near the articular end. 



VIII. This is one of the finest of our fossil cetacea. It 

 includes nearly all the bones of the skeleton, and most of them 

 are in very good preservation. 



The cranium is better in this than in either the Ottawa or 

 the Vermont specimen, although it lacks ear bones. The lower 

 jaw is less perfect. The hyoid, one stylohyal and part of the 

 other are present. Nine teeth are preserved in the upper jaw 

 and two in the lower. Both scapulas and all the arm bones are 

 present, but no phalanges. There is also a considerable part of 

 the sternum. 



In all, thirty-six vertebra? are seen in the skeleton. These 

 are all the cervicals, ten dorsals, ten lunibars and nine caudals. 

 There are no chevrons. Most of the vertebrae are essentially 

 complete. All except two have at least a part of the neural arch 

 and spine, and in most these are in good condition. The trans- 

 verse processes are all, at least partially, present, but most arc 

 somewhat fractured. The last of the caudals are missing, and 

 a few which would come in between tli~se mounted in the speci- 

 men. The whole are exceedingly well set up and accurately 

 placed. The ribs are in fairly good condition. 



The missing cartilages have not been, supplied in this speci- 

 men. As it is mounted, it is one hundred .ind twelve inches 

 long. 



