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LILLJEBORG ON THE 





Skeleton from 



Parts of a 



Skeleton at 



Christiania, 



from southern 



Norway. 



Skeleton at 



Skeleton de- 





Greenland, at 

 Copenhagen. 



Bergen, from 

 Norway. 



scribed by 

 Companyo. 



Length of scapula from cavitas glenoidalis to the upper 



Young male. 



Old male. 



Young male. 











opposite edge ..... 



2' 







2' 6" 



2' 6" 



Width of 



3' 71" 







4' 2" 



4' 11" 



Length of acromion ..... 



111" 







111" 



— 



,, of processus coracoideus 



— 







91" 



— 



„ of OS humeri .... 



1' 7'^' 



1' 71" 



1' 71" 



1' 71" 



„ of vdna ..... 



2' 4|" 



2' 8|" 



2' 9|" 



2' 3|" 





to the point of 

 olecranon. 



ditto ditto 



ditto ditto 



without 

 olecranon 



„ of radius ..... 



2' 3|" 



2' 7T 



2' 61" 



2' 3|" 



„ of one of the anterior extremities on the skeleton 











from the head of the humerus 



6' 71" 



■ — 



6'i 



6' 2f 



The usual length of full-grown whales of this species seems to be about 70', sometimes 

 several feet more, and sometimes less. Eschricht mentions that a specimen 68' (Danish) 

 in length was caught at Kragero, in southern Norway. The whale of which some parts of 

 he skeleton are now preserved in the museum of the University of Christiania, and which, 

 according to Lector Esmark, was caught at " Oster Risor," on the southern coast of Norway, 

 is said to have been 68' (Norwegian), or about 71' (Swedish) in length. The old male, of 

 which the skeleton is in the museum in Bergeiij and which was caught on the western coast of 

 Norway, in the vicinity of Bergen, in October or November, 1858, is said to have been 56' 

 (Norwegian) or 58'^ (Swedish) long, but was probably as large as the one caught at " Oster 

 Risor.'" The old male, described by Van Beneden (loc. cit.), caught in November, 1851, near 

 the coast of Holland, and of which the skeleton is preserved at Antwerp, is said to have been 22 

 metres or 74' 6" long. The specimen (also an old male) described by Eschricht in his 5th treatise,^ 

 that was obtained in September, 1 844, on the northern coast of Seeland, in Denmark, and of 

 which some parts are preserved in the Physiological Museum in Copenhagen, was, according to 

 Eschricht, 65' (Danish), or about 67' 8" (Swedish) in length. Eschricht also speaks, among 

 others, of two specimens that were caught on the coasts of England and Scotland, one of which 

 was 75' and the other 76' long, Danish measure. 



It is, according to the description and figure given by Schlegel, which seems to be very 

 good, of a slender and elongated form of body, with its greatest height, which is far before the 

 middle, and somewhat behind the pectoral fins, about 5 or i of its entire length. The specimen, a 

 young male, described by Schlegel, was 40i' long and 6' 3" high (Rhenish measure), at the thickest 

 part. The whale 74' 6" long, described by Van Beneden, was, according to him, 40' 7" in cir- 

 cumference on the thickest part, but it had been found floating on the sea, much distended 



^ The terminal phalanges were missing. 



^ Dr. Koren has since informed me, that the articulated skeleton is now 58' long. 

 ^ ' Kongl. Danske Videnskabernes Selskabs naturvidenskabelige og Mathematiske Aphandlingar, 

 12'^ Deel,' p. 348 and following. 



