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smaller skeleton, only tlie first 3 in the larger. The first 2 cervical vertebræ are united by their 

 coi-pora in both skeletons. The lateral processes or processus transversi of the 5 posterior cer- 

 vical vertebræ are but slightly developed, and the lower branch (parapophysis) of the last or 7th 

 is reduced to an articulating area for the capitulum of the 1st pair of ribs. The opening for the 

 arteria vertebralis in the lateral processes is not closed on any of these vertebræ, nor do these 

 processes form a ring. Dorsal vertebræ 11, lumbo-sacral vertebræ 9 in one skeleton, and 11 in 

 the other ; caudal vertebræ 25 in tlie former, and 23 in the latter ; altogether, with the 7 cervical 

 vertebræ, 52 vertebræ in each skeleton ; the former has 14 and the latter 13 processus spinosi 

 inferiores. The last 14 caudal vertebræ are in both without processus transversi. The sternum 

 consists of only 1 bone.^ Five pairs of the 11 pairs of ribs are costæ veræ, and the 6th pair are 

 united to a cartilaginous extension of the sternum. The 1st to 7th pairs of ribs show at their 

 upper ends the same relation as in the preceding species, viz., they articulate by their capitula to the 

 corpora of the vertebræ next preceding those to the transverse processes of which the tubercula 

 of these ribs are articulated, and the capitula of the 1st pair articulate with the corpus of the 7th 

 cervical vertebra. The carpus has on both skeletons only two bones, but the metacarpus has 5 ; 

 fingers 5. The thumb has 1 phalanx, the forefinger 5, the middle finger 3, the fourth finger 2, and 

 the little finger 1. All the phalanges are complete in both skeletons, and are broad, but rather 

 thin. The skeletons, with the exception of the head, seem generally to be of a less heavy structure 

 than those of the preceding species. 



One of the two smaller skeletons in the Physiological Museum in Copenhagen, which were 

 of almost equal length, viz., about 12^', ofifered several peculiarities. Its head was comparatively 

 broader, and the structure of the skeleton generally somewhat heavier, although it seemed to be 

 young. Its head was 2' 9^" long and 1' 7r wide, while it was 1' 0" wide on the other skeleton 

 of the same length. Its sternum consisted of 4 pieces, while it consisted of 8 in the other two ; its 

 scapula was somewhat wider, and its ribs longer and wider, and the anterior ones more curved. 

 These deviations may have been a consequence of diff'erence of sex, and the coarser skeleton may 

 have been from a male.^ All three skeletons had 13 teeth on each side of the upper jaw and 12 

 on each side of the lower. Only the coarser had 13 teeth on one side of the lower jaw. 



It is said to be not very scarce on the western coast of Norway. A herd of 12 were caught 

 at once in a bay near Bergen, in Norway, during the winter of 1860 ; they were driven into 

 shallow water, near the shore, until they grovmded, and were then killed. The two skeletons in 

 the museum in Bergen are from these. The smaller skull in the Zoological Museum in Lund, 

 that is mentioned in ' Skandinavisk Fauna,' Mammalia, p. 604, and is 2' 11" long, is probably 

 of 'this species. It is not stated where it is from ; but it is probable that this species, at 

 times, is found on the western coast of Sweden. It undoubtedly pursues the larger whales as 

 eagerly as the preceding species. 



Addendum io the description of Orca Gladiator.— I have been enabled to add the following 

 to the description of this species from an outline sketch kindly furnished me by Professor F. 

 Wahlgren, of Lund, which is copied from the figure of this species, mentioned by Professor 



^ The sternum was divided into three pieces in the specimen described by Schlegel. 

 2 This more robust skeleton has been referred by Eschricht to a new species. It was taken at 

 the Faroe Islands. 



