. Catalogue of seals and whales in the British Museum . Seals (Animals); Whales. ADDITIONS AND COREECIIONS. 399 any gonyx. Teeth small, slender, |^, five in an inch of margin. The palate flat; the hinder part of the palate in front of the internal nostrils broad, swollen, with a very shallow central groove with rather convex sides, and very oblique, flat, external sides. _ Length of skull 15i inches, of beak 9^, of brain-case 6^, of lower jaw 12|-; width over condyles 6| inches, at notch 3 inches 4 lines, in middle of beak 1 inch 8 lines. The two bladebones are rather different in general form
. Catalogue of seals and whales in the British Museum . Seals (Animals); Whales. ADDITIONS AND COREECIIONS. 399 any gonyx. Teeth small, slender, |^, five in an inch of margin. The palate flat; the hinder part of the palate in front of the internal nostrils broad, swollen, with a very shallow central groove with rather convex sides, and very oblique, flat, external sides. _ Length of skull 15i inches, of beak 9^, of brain-case 6^, of lower jaw 12|-; width over condyles 6| inches, at notch 3 inches 4 lines, in middle of beak 1 inch 8 lines. The two bladebones are rather different in general form, one being more truncated behind than the other; they are both truncated in front, and in both the coraeoid process is large, with a short upper, and a long straight lower edge; one has a long, regularly arched, and the other an equally long, but sinuous upper edge, showing that, considering the bladebone a specific distinction, some allow- ance must be made for occasional variation. The skull is much like some of the skulls I have named Clymene Boris; but perhaps I have included several species under that name, as some of the skulls difi"er in the form of the hind part of the palate. The one here described differs from all of them in having a more slender and attenuated beak. Dorsal fin high, rather acute at the tip. Black, sides with minute white specks; the sides of the body above the base of the pectoral to the base of the tail blackish grey, which colour is obhquely ex- tended as a lunate band from behind the vent to the back near the base of the tail. Clymene punctata,, Gray, T. Z. S. 1865, 738. Inhab. North Atlantic Ocean, lat. 16° 40'N., long. 21°^. A female. Length from end of snout to tip of tail 6 feet, to blowhole 1 foot |- inch, to the eye 1 foot ^ inch, to front of dorsal fin 2 feet 8^ inches, to base of pectoral fin 1 foot 3|- inches; length from tip of tail to back fin 2 feet 4|- inches, to vent 1 foot 6-|-inches ; diameter of body behind back fin 1 foot
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