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1908-9.] The Skeleton of a Sowerby’s Whale. 
young, were stranded near Nairn. The mother was nearly 16 feet long, 
the young one about 9 \ feet. Mr Taylor stated * that in the upper jaw 
of the young animal 8 rudimentary teeth were concealed in the gum on 
each side, and in the lower jaw 17 on each side behind the normal tooth. 
Some years ago I described j* a somewhat similar series of rudimentary 
teeth in the gum of the upper and lower jaws of a Hyperoodon upwards 
of 20 feet long. In March 1904 Mr Taylor obtained the head of a male 
specimen, 14 feet in length, stranded at Fraserburgh. | It is obvious, there- 
fore, that Sowerby’s whale is not an uncommon species in the Scottish seas. 
In my notice of the capture of Sowerby’s whale in Dalgety Bay § the 
only English specimen to which I could refer was one recorded by Messrs 
Thomas Southwell and Eagle Clarke caught on the Yorkshire coast near 
Spurn Head in September 1885.|| Since then, Messrs Southwell and 
Harmer have described a gravid female, 16 feet long, containing a foetus 
5 feet long, captured in December 1892 at Overstrand, near Cromer, and 
purchased by the Hon. Walter Rothschild for his museum.Tf In my 
previous memoirs on Sowerby’s Whale, I referred to specimens caught on 
the French coast and to the descriptions by Reinhardt, Malm and Aurivillius 
of specimens stranded on the coast of Scandinavia. More recently J. A. 
Greig has described ** two specimens obtained in 1895 in the Scandinavian 
seas, one at the island Karmo, the other at the adjoining island Fseo. Mr 
Glover M. Allen has also recorded f ■ j* two recent specimens captured off 
the coast of North America, one at Annisquam, Massachusetts, in 1898 ; the 
other at Long Branch, New Jersey, in 1905. In a recent note ( Science , 
vol. xxvi., 1907) F. W. True stated that, in his opinion, three species of 
Mesoplodon occur on the U.S. Atlantic coast, bidens, europoeus, densirostris. 
Morphology of Manus in Hyperoodon and in the Delphinidoe. 
Since publishing in October 1885 my memoir on the Anatomy of Sowerby’s 
Whale, in which I dwelt on the morphology of the manus in this cetacean, 
and compared it with the manus of Hyperoodon and Globicephalus, I have 
had the opportunity of dissecting several other specimens of the Odontoceti 
* The same Annals, p. 66, April 1900. The skeleton of the mother and the skull of the 
young animal are now in the Royal Scottish Museum, 
t Proc. Poy. Phys. Soc. Edin., vol. ix. p. 25, 1885-86. 
f Annals of Scottish Natural History, p. 186, July 1904. 
§ Proc. Roy. Phys. Soc., vol. x., 1888-9. 
I! Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 5, vol. xxii. p. 53, 1886. 
IF Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 6, vol. xi. pp. 275, 439, 1893. 
** Bergens Museums Aarbog , 1897, No. v., plates 1, 11, animal and skull. 
+t American Naturalist , vol. xl. p. 357, 1906. 
