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STUDIES OF TASMANIAN CETACEA, 



In tlie above notes it has been our object to supply 

 actual data, and not to repeat the published characters. 



(11). 



General Notes upon the Skeletons. 



ADULT JMALE. 



All cervicals anky- 

 losed, but not to 

 sutuial extinction, 

 last two open. No 

 super ossification. 

 (Animal almost 

 adult— compare size 

 of skull with tliat 

 of the other male.) 



Twelve dorsal verte- 

 brae measure, in 

 an tero- posterior ex- 

 tension— 3ft. 2in. 



Epiphyses not anky- 

 losed to centra of 

 vertebrae. 



Total length of verte- 

 bral series, minus 

 skull— 14ft. 6in. 



ADULT FEMALE. 



All cervicals anky- 

 losed, not to extinc- 

 tion, last two open, 

 much super ossifica- 

 cation. (Spine of 

 the axis l>iending 

 strongly with chose 

 of the rest of the 

 series. 



Twelve dorsals 

 measure — 2ft. Tin. 



Epiphyses of all verte- 

 bne ankylosed to 

 centra, and sutures 

 extinct. 



Length of vertebral 

 series— 10ft. lOin 



IMMATURE. 6 



Cervicals ankylosed — 

 lightly, but tirnily, 

 excepcthe 7th, which 

 is loose. Five sutures 

 wide open. Right 

 neui apophysis has 

 not blended with its 

 fellow moiety. 



Twelve dorsals 



measure — 2ft. 5iin. 



All epiphyses quite 

 free from the centra. 



Length of vertebral 

 series— 10ft. JO^in. 



From the above comparative measurements it will be 

 manifest that the adult male exceeds the adult female, in 

 size, by anything up to four feet, or over, and that an im- 



(11) Such as already given by Beddard in A Book of Whales and The 

 Cambridoc Natural History {Mammals), etc. 



