1869.] OF THE COMMON FIN-WHALE. 609 
There are fifteen pairs of ribs. The first, second, and third have 
a capitular process extending about halfway from the ends of the 
transverse processes to the bodies of the vertebrae. The first is 50" 
in its greatest length in a straight line, and 12” broad at the lower 
end. It is simple, showing no trace of the coalition of a cervical 
rib with it. The last pair were quite rudimentary and unconnected 
with the spinal column, corresponding in position with the middle 
third of the fourteenth pair. They are pointed at the upper end, 
but shaped like the other ribs below. The length of that on the 
right side is 193", of the left 27". 
A figure of the sternum is given in P, Z. 8S. 1864, p. 393. Its 
anterior part is expanded laterally into two broad wings; and it has 
a long narrow posterior process. Its extreme breadth is 24", and 
its length 213’. The ankylosed basihyal and thyro-hyals measure 
34" across, and 114" in greatest length from before backwards. The 
stylo-hyals are 164" long, and 4! in greatest thickness. The sca- 
pula is 51" in breadth, and 29" in height; from the posterior supe- 
rior angle to the end of the acromium process is 464", from the 
hinder edge of the glenoid fossa to the tip of the coracoid 21". The 
humerus is 20" in extreme length, and 11" in greatest diameter 
near the lower end. The radius is 31}" long, 7" in greatest diameter 
(at the upper end), 54! at the middle, and 7} at the lower end. The 
ulna is 36" in extreme length, 294'' from the middle of its articula- 
tion with the humerus, 94!’ in width at the olecranon, 4" at the 
middle, and 64" at the lower end. The lower epiphyses of the ulna 
and radius are quite separate from the shafts. There are five prin- 
cipal ossifications in each carpus, three in the proximal and two 
(smaller) in the distal row, besides a minute (pisiform?) nodule 
situated on the ulnar side of the wrist. There are four metacarpal 
bones, which measure respectively, beginning on the radial side, 
43", 6", 5", and 32". The pelvic bones are each 183" long, gently 
curved, with one end flattened and rather spatulate, and the other 
tapering and more conical, and with a prominent angular projection 
from near the middle of the convex border. 
3. The third skeleton was prepared from the animal which was 
washed ashore on the south coast of the Isle of Wight in April 
1842, 
A short notice of it has been given by Dr. Gray*; and it once 
received a visit from the distinguished Danish cetologist Eschricht, 
as mentioned in his valuable ‘ Untersuchungen uber die nérdlichen 
Wallthiere ;’ but no further description of it has ever been published. 
My notes are brief, but they are sufficient to determine the species. 
They were taken on the 11th of last August. The skeleton belongs 
to the proprietor or exhibitor of the well-known gully in the cliff 
called ‘‘ Black Gang Chine,” about six miles west of Ventnor, and is 
at present in a stable attached to the house which forms the entrance 
for visitors to the ‘ Chine.” 
This must have been a considerably larger animal than the last, 
* Zoology of Erebus and Terror, p. 50; Cat. Seals and Whales Brit. Mus. 
(1866) p. 148. 
