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here described. It is not, however, only on the number of the phalanges that the extra¬ 
ordinary difference in the length of the fins of these two forms depends; the shape of the 
individual phalanges also contributes its share to this effect, being comparatively much longer in 
the cafing-whale than in our species, in w r hich, indeed, their length still surpasses their breadth 
in the first three fingers, but the difference between the two dimensions is, nevertheless, only 
small. The dolphin here treated of stands in this respect about midway between the Globio- 
cephali and the Orcas, in the latter of which the breadth exceeds the length of the phalanges, 
even in the two longest fingers; but as to the number of the phalanges, it approaches the latter 
more than the former ; for in an old male Orca, from the Kattegat, I count two, seven, four, 
three, and two phalanges; but in spite of the resemblance, in this respect, the shape of the 
pectoral fin is (as we have said) extremely different also from that of the Orca. Cuvier states 1 
the number of the phalanges of Delphinus griseus to be two, eight, seven, two, and one; if no 
errors have slipped into this statement, we are almost forced to believe that the phalanges of 
this dolphin are comparatively longer even than those of the Globiocephali, and accordingly as to 
their shape still more different from those of our dolphin than those of the last-named genus ; for 
as we shall see presently, this Delphinus griseus, remarkable in several respects, but the 
description of which, we are sorry to say, is only rather superficial, must have comparatively 
longer, though, at the same time, broader pectoral fins than the ca’ing-whale ; and it is not 
probable, that their great length is in any essential degree owing to an unusual length of the 
bones of the fore-arm. 
The specimen 
from Asnaes (?) 
The specimen 
from Refsnses. 
The specimen 
from Midtlelfart 
(<?)- 
Total length of the skeleton 
- 
13' 
1 "2 
13' 
5" 
Length of the seven cervical vertebrae 
— 
4" 
If ft 
5 
3" 
1 V" 
„ ,, six foremost cervical vertebrae . 
• 
off 
O 
3"' 
3" 
4"' 
2" 
81'" 
Length of all the lumbar vertebrae reckoned to the 
first 
haemapophysis .... 
• 
— 
3' 
3" 
6'" 
3' 
5" 
Length of all the caudal vertebrae 
— 
5' 
3" 2 
5' 
3" 
6"' 
Breadth of the first cervical vertebra 
9" 
6'" 
9" 
1"' 
9" 
cyftt 
,, first dorsal vertebra 
— 
6" 
rjfff 
6" 
4"' 
„ last dorsal vertebra 
— 
11" 
4"' 
r 
0" 
6"' 
„ broadest (the first) lumbar vertebra 
— 
r 
0" 
Ottf 
o 
r 
0" 
10"' 
Height of the scapula measured from the middle of 
the 
articular cavity to the middle of the superior arched 
margin (basis scapula) 
• 
8" 
6'" 
7" 
6'" 
7" 
6'" 
Breadth of the scapula measured by a straight 
line 
between the angles which the base forms with 
anterior and posterior margins 
the 
r o" 
0 
10" 
G'". 
10" 
10"' 
; Length of the humerus 
. 
e> // 
D 
4" 
** fft 
0 
4" 
6"' 
„ the radius .... 
. 
N // 
o 
6'" 
4" 
8'" 
4" 
m Ht 
/ 
,, the ulna .... 
V' 
<ytt/ 
3" 
mitt 
7 
3" 
6"' 
Breadth of both bones of the fore-arm at their inferior 
extremity ..... 
• 
- ft 
o 
11"' 
5" 
•> // 
D 
o'" 
At 
| Length of the manus measured in the recent (undried) 
condition ..... 
• 
—— 
r 
1 
1 * lleeher. sur les Oss. Foss./ 4me ed., t. viii, 2, p. 147. 
In this measurement, the three hindmost caudal vertebrae wanting in the skeleton are in- 
