White Whale Found in Montreal East. 491 



shells of the Natica clausa, Leda glacialis, Macoma 

 proxoma, Macoma graenlandica, also sepicules of a 

 sponge, Tethea logani, and fragment of wood. 



The following parts of the skeleton have been re- 

 covered : 



Cranium and lower jaw. 

 Teeth — only three were found. 

 The Hyoid. 



The vetrebral column — forty-two of the vertebrae 

 were found. 



Chevrons — only one. 



The sternum. 



The ribs — of these there are several pairs complete, 

 the others are more or less broken. 



The Scapula— the right complete ; the left broken. 



The Humerus — both right and left. 



The Ulna — both right and left. 



At the time this animal perished, and its remains 

 were imbedded in the Leda clay, Mount Royal was a small 

 rocky island in a wide inland sea, extending from the 

 Laurentian Hills on the north to the higher ground of 

 the Eastern Townships on the south; communicating 

 with the Atlantic not only by the Gulf of St. Lawrence, 

 but also by the strait between the hills of New England 

 and the Adirondacks, and extending west ward at least 

 as far as the Thousand Islands. 



This arm of the sea was inhabited by a rich boreal 

 fauna, consisting of species now found in the colder 

 waters of the Gulf and Lower St. Lawrence, and in the 

 Greenland Seas. Remains of these animals may be seen 

 in the collection at the Peter Redpath Museum. 



There was thus wide sea room and probably abund- 

 ant food, on what is now the fertile plain of the Province 



