EXTERNAL MORPHOLOGY OF THE DVCOSC 



Ix (•c)ntiniiati..ii of our previous article in this journal on the 

 physiolouy and hiolo.uy of the duu-ono', we wish now to treat of its 

 external morphology. Present knowledge of this subject is indeed 

 considerahly greater than that of its biology tliough it is still far 

 from complete and particularlv has the want of a goc^l figure of 

 the animal been felt. Kiikenthal was keenly sensible of this and 

 sought partially to reme.lv the defect bv giving an excellent tiuure 

 of a dugong embryo and its snout. It is our hope that the figures 



of illustrations, since they are from photographs taken by Dexler 

 on the Australian coast during an expedition for the purpose of 

 ol)taining dugong material for scientific study, supported by the 

 Gesellschaft zur Fordertmg deutscher Wissenschaft. Kimst, und 

 Literatur in Bohnien. It is instructive al^) to couipare these 

 photographs with the first sketches of the .lugong (h'awn from 



ti<m. for otherwise- there would have been no object in obtaining 

 the nuiterial. 



As regards the >ize of the dugong. variou> nieuMU-ements were 

 brought t.)gether in the followin- table. 



