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anchylosed. There were nine chevron bones. The constitution of the carpus 

 is represented by Malm in plate v. fig. 51. 



The Swedish specimen furnishes, therefore, an additional example to that 

 which I have obtained from Shetland of the occurrence of this Cetacean in 

 the North Sea ; a habitat which had, indeed, been given for this animal by Dr. 

 Gray, in the Supplement (p. 98) to his Catalogue of Seals and Whales, although 

 no example from this sea was particularized by him. 



Professor Flower writes to me that he has lately seen a fine skeleton of 

 cavirostris in the Museum at Pisa. As the Mediterranean is evidently one of 

 the usual habitats of this cetacean, this specimen had in all probability been 

 obtained from an animal stranded on the coast of Italy. Hence it will be 

 necessary to add to the list of specimens given on p. 770 the following 

 examples of 



Ziphius Cavirostris. 

 Holma, Sweden ....... Malm 



Pisa (Mediterranean) ...... Flower 



The specimen of Sowerby's whale in the Goteborg Museum was found in 1869 

 by a fisherman upwards of 100 miles from Karingo, Sweden. It was floating 

 vertically in the sea with its long-pointed snout directed upwards, and was 

 much decomposed. It was a male. Malm obtained the entire skeleton, with 

 the pelvic bones in situ. The total length of the skeleton, including the 

 cranium, was 4409mm., to which an additional 8mm. must be added for 

 the projection of the lower jaw beyond the beak : — 



Length of cranium .......... 733mm. 



„ „ mandible .......... 639 „ 



„ „ symphysis 212 „ 



Greatest breadth of skull . . . .. . . . . .318,, 



In addition to the large tooth usually found on each side of the lower jaw in 

 this animal, Malm's specimen possesses a second small tooth on each side 

 behind the large one, and the grooved character of the alveolar edge of the 

 mandible led him to think that it might at an earlier age have possessed others. 

 The distance from the point of the longer tooth to the point of the symphysis 

 was 240mm. The vertebral formula was — C 7 D 10 L 9 Cd 20 = 46. The atlas 

 and axis were anchylosed together, and the epiphyses were united to the 

 bodies of the vertebrae. The sternum consisted of five pieces, only the two 

 posterior of which were completely anchylosed. Chevron bones ten; pelvic bones 

 63mm. long, 9mm. broad. Malm represents the constitution of the carpus in 

 plate v. fig. 52, and names the specimen Micropteron bidens. 



