Note on a Specimen of Beluga Catodon. 



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and wore handed to Dr. McEachran, Dean of the Faculty 

 of Veterinary Science, and by him presented to the Peter 

 Redpath Museum, where they are now being mounted by 



Badly for the collection of Pleistocene fossils, and may be 

 compared with a fine recent specimen from Little Metis. 

 The skeleton is nearly complete, and possibly some of the 

 missing bones may be secured when the snow has dis- 

 appeared. The locality is approximately about 100 feet 

 above the River St. Lawrence, and the specimen occurred 

 at the depth of 22 feet in the clay, associated with shells 

 of Leda (Yaldia) glacialis, Tellina (Macoma) Gfrcenlandica 

 and minute tests of Foraminifera. With the hones was 

 also found a fragment of Coniferous wood, which is deter- 

 mined' by Prof. Penhallow as that of the Black Spruce — 

 Picea Nigra. 



The Leda Clay was probably deposited at a depth of 50 

 to 80 fathoms, which corresponds approximately with one 

 of the most marked shore lines on the Montreal Mountain 

 at a height of about 470 feet above the sea, and with the 

 old sea 1 teach at Smith's Falls, Out., which afforded some 

 years ago the bones of a whale, described in the Proceed- 

 ings of this Society in the Record of Science, Montreal, 

 L883. At the time, therefore, when this animal perished, 

 and wasimbedded in the Leda clay, the Montreal Moun- 

 tain was a small rocky island in a wide inland sea. 

 extending from the Laurentian Mills on the north to the 

 high ground of the Eastern Townships on the south, com- 

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

 Lawrence, hut also by a strait between the hills of New 

 England and the Adirondacks, and extending westward 



;it least as far as the Thousand Islands. This arm of the 



Bea was inhabited by a rich boreal fauna, consisting of 



species noW found in the colder waters of the (lull' and 



River St. Lawrence,and in the Greenland Seas. Complete 



collections of these animals may he seen in our Museums, 



and have been catalogued in publications on the Pleisto- 



