FOSSIL BALEEN WHALES. 



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7. Tympanic bones, 

 inches. The 



pair of; length 4f inches, breadth 2| 

 surfaces are more convex than in B. 

 borealis, the anterior border is more strongly defined 

 by a groove, and the posterior half of the inferior keel 

 is broader. In these characters the bone corresponds 

 with B. musculus. From the skeleton of a whale 

 exposed in draining a field at Woodyett, Meiklewood, 

 Gargunnock, Carse of Stirling, in 1877. See Intro- 

 duction, p. 9, and figure below. 



8. Vertebrae, two, from the skeleton of the Meiklewood 

 whale ; processes broken. The body of the cervical 

 is 11 inches in transverse by 7 inches in supero- 

 inferior diameter, that of the lumbar 11 by 8 inches. 

 The vertebral plates not fused with the bodies. 



