242 TEN YEAKS IN SWEDEN. 



olden time, and skulls and bones of which are at the pre- 

 sent day met with in the turf mosses of the South, we may 

 notice the 



Bos Urus, Antiq. Ur Oxen. The Wild Ox. 



Bos Frontosus, N. Sp. Hog Nackad Oxe. 



Bos Longifrons, Owen. Dverg Oxe. 



Bos Bison, L. Bison Oxe. (Aurochs.) 



III. Body furnished with Fins. 



OKDER 8. CETACEA. WHALES. 



Body, fish formed; skin smooth, naked; tail fin hori- 

 zontal, deeply cloven ; hinder extremities altogether want- 

 ing ; the front extremities consist of fins. 



1. Whales with teeth. Spout hole, single, crescent 

 shaped, placed on the top of the head ; both jaws furnished 

 with numerous simple teeth. Form of the body smaller 

 than in the following. 



2. With Whale Bone. Spout holes in the form of two 

 longitudinal furrows, lie nearer the point of the nose than 

 in the last ; no teeth ; but in their place the palate is fur- 

 nished with transverse plates of baleen, or whalebone ; no 

 dorsal fin. 



NOTE. It is probable that some of the species mentioned 

 below may occasionally appear in the White Sea, off the 

 north coast of Finland, but none are seen on the Finnish 

 coasts of the Bothnia, except those that are marked F. 



Fam. 1. Whales with teeth. 

 Gen. DelphinuSj L. 



Body tolerably large ; 6 to 8 feet long, and well propor- 

 tioned ; head conically pointed, with a depression over the 

 nose; teeth numerous, pointed; the row of teeth in the 

 under jaw longer than half the jaw. 



