412 MR. W.H. FLOWER ON THE SKELETONS OF WHALES [Nov. 8, 
The transverse processes are short, thick, and rounded, growing 
straight out of the upper half of the sides of the body of the bone, 
but, as said before, incomplete at their ends. It measures 143" in 
height, and 23! in extreme width ; 16" across the articular surface 
for the skull, each facet being 121 in height and 6! in width; at 
their lower end these do not meet bya space of 2!, The neural canal 
is 10" in height, 53" wide at the upper end, contracts rather above 
its middle to 33", then expands somewhat again. The body of the 
axis measures 16" across and 73" in depth; with the processes, it is 
242" wide and 163" high ; the neural canal is 64" wide by 53" high. 
The upper and lower transverse processes do not completely unite, 
although they approach on one side within half an inch, on the other 
not quite so much; their extremities, however, are not ossified. 
The opening between them is regularly oval, 43" long and 33" wide. 
The bodies of the remaining cervical vertebree are rounded oblongs, 
their arches are low, and their spines little developed; the neural 
canals transversely elongated, and flattened above ; from the third to 
the sixth, each has an upper and lower transverse process, the upper 
ones rising somewhat from the body of the vertebra, before taking 
their outward ‘and downward course, very thin, especially at their 
concave margin, gradually and very slightly decreasing in length. 
The lower processes somewhat shorter, and considerably broader, 
though thin; with a tuberosity on their under edge near the base ; 
decreasing regularly in length, that of the sixth vertebra being no- 
tably shorter than the others. In the seventh vertebra the upper 
process is wider than in the others, and the lower one is reduced to 
a mere tubercle. 
Dimensions of the Cervical Vertebre, in inches. 
Extreme|Extreme| Height | Width Height of Width of 
height. | width. | of body.| of body.| neural canal. | neural canal. 
1 
Rds, eae 14° ig ae gen as hae G3 
Leyte Je ea Rr 14 22 84 124 4 63 
IDM De agopacd acm 144 | 22 8t 12 4 
SSIUH ete pec relaletatetat ts 15 213 | 84 113 34 
Seventh <cfalee «tse 153 | 22 ; 113 | oF qi 
There are 15 pairs of ribs. The first has an undivided head. The 
tuberosity is prominent but narrow, and a thin crest extends from it 
for some distance along the convex border of the rib. The greatest 
length in a straight line is 34"; the breadth at the middle 3", at the 
lower end 6’. The second and third ribs have both well-developed 
capitular processes extending towards the bodies of the vertebree, 
longer and more slender in the third. In the fourth this process is 
nearly obsolete, and absent in all the succeeding ones. There are 
rough surfaces on the infero-lateral portions of the hinder edges of 
the bodies of the first and second dorsal vertebrze, to which those 
processes of the ribs were connected, probably by the intervention of 
a strong ligament. The length of the second rib is 49"; of the 
third 59". 
