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Cm. Percent. 

 Total length, from centre of line joining surface of occipital cond- 



les to extremity of rostrum 34.8 1 00.0 



Length of rostrum to line joining bases of meixillary notches 18.2 52.3 



Length of rostrum to outer end of mcixillary notches 15.2 43.7 



Breadth of rostrum at base of meixillary notches 12.8 36.9 



Greatest breadth of rostrum in front of maxillary notches 16.5 47.4 



Depth of meixillary notches 4.3 12.4 



Breadth of rostrum midway in its length 10.6 30.5 



Breadth of right interniaxilla at middle of rostrum 1.7 4.9 



Breadth of left intermeixilla at middle of rostrum 2.0 5.8 



Breadth of both intermaxillae between their exterior edges, at 



middle of rostrum 6.5 18.7 



Greatest breadth between intermeixillae posteriorly 8.2 23.6 



Length of right tooth-groove 12.0 34.5 



Length of left tooth-groove 1 0.9 3 1 .3 



Posterior end of right tooth-groove to base of maxillary notch.. 6.1 17.5 



Posterior end of left tooth-groove to base of maxillary notch 7.3 2L0 



Extremity of rostrum to anterior margin of right superior naris 20.2 58.0 



Elxtremity of rostrum to anterior margin of left superior naris-- 18.6 53.4 



Extremity of rostrum to end of pterygoid crest, mesially 21.5 61.8 



Elxtremity of rostrum to end of pterygoid crest, laterally 22.1 63.5 



Anteorbital breadth (between processes of malar) 27.4 78.7 



Breadth between orbits 28.0 80.5 



Breadth between squamosals (postorbital breadth):- greatest 



breadth of skull- . . 28.4 81.6 



Breadth between hinder margins of temporal fossae 1 8.0 51.7 



Greatest breadth of occipital bone 23.9 68.7 



Tempxjral fossa, greatest length 8.1 23.2 



Temporal fossa, greatest breadth 5.2 14.9 



Length of mandible 30.6 88.0 



Length of symphysis of mandible 6.5 18.7 



Length of tooth-row of mandible, right 1 1 .8 34.0 



Length of tooth-row of mandible, left 1 2.0 34.5 



Depth between angle and coronoid process ' 8.3 24.0 



Distance apart of upper edges of mandible, halfway in length. _ 6.7 19.2 



Diameter of right naris, antero-posteriorly 1.3 3.7 



Diameter of right naris, laterally 1.1 3.2 



Diameter of left naris, antero-pxjsteriorly 4.0 11.5 



Diameter of left naris, laterally 3.2 9.2 



Diameter of largest tooth 24 .7 



Mionac Indian tradition of a blunt-headed whale. — On show- 

 ing the head of this whale to a very well-informed Micmac 

 Indian, Jeremiah Lone-cloud {alias Bartlett), he examined 

 it carefully and stated that he had never seen the species 

 before, but from descriptions given him by two very old Indians, 

 Noel Jeddore, who is now dead, and Soolian (William) Bill, 

 he felt sure it must be what was known by the Indian name 

 Ded'-men-ak.-paj'-jet, a name which means ^."blunt-head" fish. 

 Noel Jeddore had been born at Melrose, St. Mary's, N. S., and 



