192 DR. H. BURMEISTER ON A NEW WHALE. [Feb. 14, 
and is of the same form as that figured in Cuvier’s work, figs. 1 
and 3, but somewhat smaller than the latter figure. 
«The seven cervical vertebree are free, separate from each other, 
and the body of every one has the epiphyses on each side, the specimen 
being that of a young individual. But in the atlas and front side of the 
axis these epiphyses do not exist. I send you drawings of the first 
(fig. 2), the second (fig. 3), the fourth (fig. 4), and the sixth (fig. 5) 
vertebree ; the third exactly resembles the fourth, and the fifth 
only differs in a small opening in the lateral are, indicated in my 
drawing of the fourth, on the left side. The seventh has no inferior 
Fig. 2. 
Second cervical vertebra. 
