MESOPLODON. 91 



memoir on Sowerby's Whale, Proc. Roy. Soc. Edin., 

 1909, vol. xxix. p. 719, where by an error it is ascribed 

 to the specimen from Morrison's Haven. Figure on 

 p. 90. 

 Nairn, Moray Firth, September 1899. 



Donor — Wm. Taylor, Esq., Lhanbryde. 



15. Trachea and bronchi of Sowerby's Whale dried and 



spread out to show the divisions and subdivisions of 

 the bronchi. Dissected by Dr Charles A. Anderson. 

 From the Shetland specimen, 1885. 



Turner Collection. 



16. Stomach of Sowerby's Whale, Dalgety Bay, 1888, dried 



and inflated, No. 3. The first compartment (1) is not 

 a paunch, and, though receiving the oesophagus, Oe, 

 corresponds with the cardiac compartment (2) in the 

 dolphins ; succeeding it are twelve subglobular com- 

 partments (2-13) which are arranged to form a 

 A -shaped figure; the separation between them is 

 marked on the surface by constrictions, whilst inter- 

 nally broad folds of mucous membrane with valve-like 

 openings project into the lumen. The last (13) opens 

 into the distal or pyloric compartment (14), and it again 



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