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IX. A few bones consisting of the hyoid, sternum, nearly 

 complete, several phalanges and ?ome fragments of ribs were 

 found by Mr. Edward Ardsley at Williamstown, Ontario, in 

 1901. This find is especially interesting as giving the only 

 phalanges we have in the fossil skeletons. 



X. In the same clays in which the complete skeleton was 

 discovered at Smith's brickyard, Montreal, a number of bones of 

 a young individual were found. There are ten vertebrae, appar- 

 ently mostly caudals, though some are lumbar s* In all, the 

 apophyses are separated from the centra of the vertebrae, but 

 were secured with the rest. 



All the bones are small, the largest centrum being; one and 



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three-fourths inch in diameter. The bones indicate an 

 immature animal, but more than half grown. Besides the ver- 

 tebrae there are five parts of ribs and portions of the craiiium. 



XI. -Most of the skull and a number of vertebrae found at 

 Pakenham, Ontario. Not placed in a museum, but presumably 

 in the possession of Mr. Patrick Cannon, of Pakenham. Of 

 this Dr. Whiteaves writes in the Ottawa Naturalist, vol. xx, 

 pp. 214-216, as follows: " On the fifth of September, 1906, a 

 skeleton, which is obviously that of a very young individual of 

 white whale, was found by Mr. Patrick Cannon while digging 

 a well on his farm at Pakenham, Ontario. . . . This 

 skeleton was imbedded in blue clay, fourteen feet below the 

 surface, and only a portion was dug out. In digging the well, 

 some depth of clay was first bored through, then a mixture of 

 clay and shells, in which the skeleton was found, was struck, 

 and the excavation ended in blue clay. The bones that have 

 been exhumed so far consist of a nearly, perfect skull, with only 

 a few of the teeth missing, and one of the tympanic bones with 

 most of the cervical vertebrae and three of the dorsals with some 

 of their epiphyses. Apart from the obvious immaturity, this 

 Pakonham skull and the vertebrae immediately adjoining 



