1865.] DR. H. BURMEISTER ON A NEW WHALE. 193 
Fig. 4. 
Sixth cervical vertebra. 
process at all, but a much stronger superior one, of the same form. 
All the five vertebra after the second are very thin, 2 inches in 
diameter, the third being the thinnest of all, and the following ones 
somewhat thicker ; the seventh is 27 inches in thickness. 
“Of costal or dorsal vertebrae we have fourteen, very well indicated 
by the flattened end of the transverse processes being united with the 
ribs. The first of these dorsal vertebree is very thin, 3 inches in 
diameter ; and the second somewhat thicker, 34 inches; after these 
Proc. Zoou. Soc.—1865, No. XIII. 
