66 SPECIMENS OF CETACEA. 



caught in the Mersey, near Spoke, in July 1863. The 

 skeleton is in the Liverpool Museum. 



Turner Collection. 



3. Vertebrae, atlas, axis, 3rd and 4th cervical. Atlas distinct, 



transverse diameter 2 feet 2h inches; axis, 3rd and 

 4th. are partially fused together ; transverse diameter 

 of axis 2 feet 9 inches. The specimen was brought 

 from New Zealand by the CJiallenger Expedition, 

 and was described by 8ir Wm. Turner in the Reports, 

 vol. i., 1880, as Megaptcra lalandi (Fischer). It is 

 doubtful if it should be regarded as a distinct 

 species. The atlas vertebra presents no appreciable 

 difference from that in the specimens from the Cape 

 of Good Hope. 



[Nos. 4, 5, and 6 were obtained in a cargo of whales' 

 bones collected at Saldanha Bay, and imported from 

 the Cape of Good Hope into Leith in 1870 by 

 Messrs J. & J. Cunningham, by whom they were 

 presented. Turner Collection.] 



4. Vertebrae, atlas and axis, not fused. Atlas, transverse 



diameter 2 feet 5 inches ; vertical, 1 foot 4^ inches. 



5. Vertebra, atlas, a massive bone. Transverse diameter 



2 feet 11 inches; vertical, 1 foot 8 inches. 



6. Radius and ulna, right. Radius 3 feet 3 inches long, 



ulna 2 feet 10 inches long ; olecranon short. 



7. Mammary pouch and two nipples of a male M. hoops. 



The opening of the milk-duct is shown on each 

 nipple. Between the nipples is a mesial projection 

 which lies opposite the mouth of the pouch and can 

 close it. From the Megaptera designated the Tay 

 Whale, described by Sir John Struthers in Jourii. 

 Anat. and Phys., 1887, vol. xxii. 



Donor — Sir John Struthers. 



[Tympanic, left, of the Tay Megaptera in the Public 

 Museum, Dundee. Length 4-3 inches, breadth 2-6 

 inches, height the same. Outer surface separated 

 by short, wide, moderately deep groove into two 

 prominently convex divisions, of which the posterior 

 is the larger. Anterior end blunt, rough, continued 

 into rough inferior keel ; posterior end a sharp ridge 

 defined by a furrow. Inner surface less convex 

 than outer, thick, rounded, and striated at the border 

 of the cavity, which is 2 inches above the keel. 



