248 TEN YEARS IN SWEDEN. 



tuns. Was formerly seen off the Scandinavian coast, but 

 never now, so that it can scarcely any longer be said to be- 

 long to its fauna. 



B.prisca. Fossil Fen hvalen. 



The fossil remains of this whale which have been found 

 on the coast off Ystad, in the Baltic, and even far inland in 

 Wangapanse, Westergothland, betoken a whale which, 

 although not more than between 50 and 60 ft. long, must at 

 least have had a body 27 times larger and heavier than the 

 common whale. 



