. Catalogue of seals and whales in the British Museum. British Museum (Natural History); Seals (Animals); Whales. I / () BAL^ This specimen was 102 feet long, the lower jaw 21| feet long, and the fins 13| feet long. Vertebrae 54. Ribs 14 . 14. The atlas {Duhar, t. 6. f. 1): the second cervical vertebra with large lateral processes, pierced with a large hole ; the third, fourth, and fifth with two lateral processes on each side, which are not formed into a complete ling as in the second ; the fifth oft'ers a rudiment of a spinal apophysis. The first rib double-headed, articidated to
. Catalogue of seals and whales in the British Museum. British Museum (Natural History); Seals (Animals); Whales. I / () BAL^ This specimen was 102 feet long, the lower jaw 21| feet long, and the fins 13| feet long. Vertebrae 54. Ribs 14 . 14. The atlas {Duhar, t. 6. f. 1): the second cervical vertebra with large lateral processes, pierced with a large hole ; the third, fourth, and fifth with two lateral processes on each side, which are not formed into a complete ling as in the second ; the fifth oft'ers a rudiment of a spinal apophysis. The first rib double-headed, articidated to the th'st and second dorsal vertebrie. IJones of the ears {Dulxir, t. 5. f. 1) ; OS hyoides (t. 5. f. 2); breast-bone (t. 0. f. 4) not pierced, short and broad, with a broad hinder portion. The vertebral column '61. Dubar's figures rejiresent the second, third, and fourtli cervical ver- tebra; as with a ring, and the fifth, sixth, and seventh with defiexed upper and straight lower sei)arate lateral processes. Eibs, first (t. 8. f. 1) with two heads, very broad at lower end; second (f. 2) with rather elongate internal process ; fourteenth (f. 3) (juite simple. Pelvic bones (t. 9. f. 1, 2). Shoiddcr-blade short and very broad on the external edge, with a large lobe for the ridge (t. 10). Pectoral fin and bones (t. 11). Pingers four ; the second and third nearly of equal length, and longest; the fourth or outer shorter, longer than the first or inner. ¥\s. First rib of Sibhaldius borealis. (From Dubar.) The upper jaw narrower and shorter than the lower, so as to be embraced by the lower ; a tuft of horny round filaments or long hairs, united at their roots by a common membrane and divided at the end into small points, at the tip of the snout. Eyes rather high and very near the angle of the mouth. Ear-hole near the eye, but a little further back. Hinder part of the back keeled. Dorsal fin rather less than three-fourths of the entire length from the end of the nose, exactly o
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