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The bones h:i\-e a iiiucli fresher appoaraiiee tluiu tliose of the 

 other fos-^.ls here recorded. J^r. Dawson rays of these: '' I have 

 no doubt that they behjng to the Jliutipljack Whale, Megapfera 

 longinianas (hoops). 



VIE. — In Canadian Ice Agc', page 2(»U, iJr. Dawson writes: 

 " I secured last summer, 1801, a large jaw-bone found in dig- 

 ging a cellai' in the shelly gravel of the lower terrace at Metis." 

 This fragment, for the interior ])ortion is wanting, is over eleven 

 feet long an 1 eighteen inches wide near the articular end. 



\'1I1. — This is one of the tiiu'st (if our fossil ceracc'a. It 

 includes nearly all the bones of the skeleton, aad most of tliem 

 are in very good preservation. 



The cranium is better in this than in either the Ottawa or 

 the Vermont sjiecimen, although it lacks ear bones. The lower 

 jaw is less perfect. The hyoid. one stylohyal and part of the 

 other are present. Xiue teeth are ])re'5erved i.i tlie upper jaw 

 and two in the lower. ]>oth sca])ulas and all the arm bones are 

 present, but no ]»halanges. There is als(j a considerable part of 

 the sternum. 



In all, thirty-six vertebrte arc seen in the skeleton. These 

 are all the cervicals, ten dorsals, ten lund)ars and nine camlals. 

 There are no chevrons. ^lost of the vertebra' arc essentially 

 complete. Ail except two have at least a part of the ncMiral arch 

 and spine, and in most these are in good condition. The trans- 

 verse processes are all, at least ])artially, present, but most an 

 somewhat fractured. The last of the caudals arc missing, and 

 a few which would come in between tic se mimnted in the s])eci- 

 luen. The Avliole are exceedingly Avell set up and accurately 

 placed. The ribs are in fairly good condition. 



The missing cartilages have not been supplied in this speci- 

 men. As it is mounted, it is one liunilr(-d lud twelve inches 

 long. 



