lou ox A SKELETON or A WJIALE IN THE 



'I'licrc arc ten ril)s on the right side and nine on the left. 

 Suinc (jf tlieni are eunsiderably broken, but others are nearly 

 jjerfect. The longest in this skeleton is the fifth, which from 

 x'crtcbra to stcrimiii, is lhirty-li\-c iiiclus (Hi the outside curve. 

 J'his specimen i- iiioi'c perfect than any other in its vertebnc 

 and scapulas, 



\\ — This is the Halifax specimen, which is descrihcd in 

 the first ])ai't id' ihis ])a])er, 



^'l. — In A niciucan JnunKil of Sciou-c. .">rd series, vol. xxv., 

 p. 200, l)i'. Dawson writes: " Jiones of large whales 

 are not of infrecpient occurrence in the lower St. Lawrence. 

 'J'he Ixmes fonnd on lower and tlicrefore modern terraces are 

 usually in a go:)d stat(; of [)reservation, and have a very recent 

 a])]>earance."' After mentioning several s})ecimeus of " lieluga,"' 

 all of which are discussed in these ])ages. Dr. Dawson mentions 

 ])art icuhirly several large l)ones foiiiid in a gra\cd pit thirty 

 feet liclow the --nrfacc. 



In Cana'haii J re Aye, \k I'ds. Dr. Dawsim I'cfcrs to these 

 bo.n(!s as fctllows; '" Mcfjaplcid loin/i nifiiid . (ii'ay. Portions of 

 a sk<'leton i>i' this species were fnniid in ]n^-' in a liallast [)it (.>f 

 tli(! Canadian Pacific liailroad, three miles imrth (d" Smith's 

 i'alls, Ontario, '■>] mihs north of die St. Lawrence liiv.er. 

 Tliey were imbedde;! in gravel alono with shells nf TcUiiia 

 (jwiilaiuhra . a])pai'ently on a beach of the Pleistocene period, at 

 an ele\-ation (d' 440 feet alxive the sea, which corresponds nearly 

 with one of the ])rin(Mpal <ea-coast terraces on tlie Montreal 

 jnonntain and oihei' parts of the St. Lawrence vadley." 



These bones, now in the Pcdpath Museum, consist of a dor- 

 sal, a Inmliar xcrtehra, ]iart of the iieural arch (d" another, and 

 a i)art of a rib. '-Fhe centrnm of the lumbar is ten inches in 

 diameter and from tip to tip of the transverse processes it is 

 thirty inches. 



