26 FISCHER ON THE PELVIS OF THE MAMMALIA. 



Section 31. 10. Cetacece, The pelvis of the cetacese seems rather a rudi- 

 ment, and the last phalanz in the series of the diverse forms of the pelvis, in 

 like manner as the rudiment of the pelvis, in the anguis fragilis (slow-worm) 

 is said to connect the lizard tribe to serpents. 



Merk,|] at least, does not venture to give a description of the pelvis of the 

 cetacese, without adding delineations to it, on account of the simplicity of the 

 structure. I have myself observed, during the coarse dissection of sailors, 

 that the delphinus phoceena (porpess dolphin) has a pelvis, or at least a 

 bone, which shuts in, as it were, the abdomen, in the situation of the bones 

 of the pubis. A.) 



li Hessische, Beyti. zur Gelchrs. und Kunst. 1. Baud, 6, Stiik. 



