Vol. I, No. 9.] Notes on the Dugong, 239 
[N.8.] 
was obtained by drawing a straight line immediately in front of 
third measurement given practically represents the length of the 
tail, which is a little less than half that of the head and body. 
This observation is perhaps of some importance,'as the pads of 
of considerable thickness, although there are no bony epiphyses. 
Consequently, skeletons, as set up in museums, very often do not 
represent anything approaching the true length of the animal. 
By the “facial disk” I mean the flattened area, which does not 
lude the nostrils, above the tusks. ill be described in 
What i h 
homologue “of what Murie and others have called the “ upper 
jaw pad’ in the Manatees; but it is better developed in the 
Colowr— 
The dorsal surface, shortly after death, was a dull brownish 
grey, which faded gradually, though pure grey on the sides, to 
bell i 
effect, giving the animal quite a prickly appearance in certain 
ist 
Jaw, and a third over the whole of the trunk, limbs and fluke, the 
the kind last mentioned having two distinct phases _o: wth. 
The hairs a ntly devoid of pigment neral 
r of th ment, ap airs, bled 
that of tropical Cetacea, the “blubber” being less thick than 
that of northern Porpoises. No oil was set free by cutting through 
it. Beneath it, however, there was a layer of opaque white fat 
very like that of a pig in appearance. 
