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was 2' 4" long, and the ulna 2' 5" to the point of the olecranon. The length of the former was 

 only 3| times its width at the middle, and that of the latter about 65 times its width. 

 The ulna is thus considerably narrower than the radius. The hand is broad, and the number of 

 fingers 5. 



It is, according to Scoresby, free from Cirripeds. 



The Greenland whale, like the Narwhal, belongs to the northern parts of the Polar Sea, and 

 appears on the coast of Greenland only during the winter, and then generally not south of 

 65° North latitude. According to Martens, in his time (1671) it inhabited the western part 

 of the Polar Sea, in the spring about Jan Mayen and Greenland, but during the summer the 

 seas east of Spitzbergeu. It remains near the polar ice, and does not generally appear out of the 

 polar region, except when some single specimen may have strayed further south. It does, there- 

 fore, not strictly belong to the existing Scandinavian fauna; but during a former period, when 

 this fauna was a North-polar fauna, it probably normally existed here, as is proved by the 

 remains of its skeleton that are now at times dug out of the ground. A scapula of a young 

 specimen was, according to Nilsson,^ found in the ground in digging out a milldam at Gammelstorp, 

 in the parish of Farstorp, in the district of Western Goinge, in Scania, five miles (Swedish) from 

 the sea. A whale was stranded, according to Retzius,^ near Ystad, in Southern Scania (Sweden), 

 in the early part of last century, of which some of the bones were preserved in the Museum in Lund 

 in the time of Retzius. Nilsson, in ' Skandinavisk Fauna,' has given more particulars of these 

 bones (under the name of B. prised), and states that they were found in the sand near Ystad, in 

 1722; he has also given an outhne figure of the scapula. This has all the characters of the 

 scapula of B. mysticetus. It is 3' 4" long, and 3' 9" wide, and the processus coracoideus is con- 

 spicuous, although rather short. The same author^ has since stated that this shoulder-blade, as 

 well as some ribs of the same skeleton, preserved in the Museum at Lund, belonged to a B. 

 mysticetus. We have, therefore, in this an evidence that this whale, during a comparatively recent 

 period, has strayed into the Baltic, and that it has been stranded on a Scandinavian coast. This 

 would seem to strengthen the probability that the whale which was stranded at Edbo, in Roslagen, 

 in 1489, was also of this species, more especially as the before-mentioned vertebra, by its size, 

 seems to afford grounds for such an opinion. A scapula, two vertebrae, and two ribs, of B. 

 mysticetus, are preserved at Skokloster, hi Upland (Sweden), and are said to have been found at 

 Lyckas, in Smaland ; their mouldered appearance seems to indicate that they have been in the 

 ground for a considerable length of time. I have, in my before-quoted discourse, at the meeting 

 of naturalists in Copenhagen, in 1860, mentioned a whale bone, which, with some others, is 

 preserved in the Cathedral of Wisby,** and of which Mr. P. A. Save has been kind enough to 

 furnish me a figure. This bone is probably a latei'al process of a lumbosacral vertebra of a 

 B. mysticetus. It is 1' 7" long, although it is somewhat mutilated at the point ; it is thus too 



^ ' Fauna, Daggdjuren,' p. 645. This bone is here mentioned under the specific name Batæna 

 prisca. It is, according to Nilsson, of the same species as another scapula preserved in Lund, 

 •which is of B. mysticetus, viz., the one found at Ystad, although the former is incomplete and somewhat 

 smaller. 



" ' Fauna Suecica,^ p. 50. 



3 'Ofversigt. af Kongl. Vetensk. Akad. Forh.,' 1860, p. 105. 



* These bones are mentioned by Linné in his ' Oliiudska och Gotlandska resa,' p. 165. 



