. Catalogue of seals and whales in the British Museum. British Museum (Natural History); Seals (Animals); Whales. 122 Sternum rhombic, without any central perforation. The tj^mpanic bone is oblong, ventricoso, smooth, very solid, -with a rough depres- sion on the convex outer side. It is very like that of the genus Physalus, but shorter, more ventricose, and more solid. Fio-. Top of the first and second ribs of Mcyaptcra /oiii/iinana. Var. 2. MooREi. The second and third cervical vertebra} very thin, anchylosed together by the body and neural arch. The body of the cervica
. Catalogue of seals and whales in the British Museum. British Museum (Natural History); Seals (Animals); Whales. 122 Sternum rhombic, without any central perforation. The tj^mpanic bone is oblong, ventricoso, smooth, very solid, -with a rough depres- sion on the convex outer side. It is very like that of the genus Physalus, but shorter, more ventricose, and more solid. Fio-. Top of the first and second ribs of Mcyaptcra /oiii/iinana. Var. 2. MooREi. The second and third cervical vertebra} very thin, anchylosed together by the body and neural arch. The body of the cervical vertebroe oblong, transverse, much wider than high. The neural arch rather slender, with a subcircular oblong cavity, which is fully two-thirds as high as wide. Inhab. Estuary of the Dee (18G3, TJios. Moore). Skeleton in the Free Museum, Liverpool; a young female 31 feet long. ' The atlas is very thick; the second cervical nearly as thick as the atlas, with the upper and lower lateral processes separate, short; the fifth, sixth, and seventh cervicals all similar to the third and fourth; the fifth thin, and the seventh the thickest. The second cervical vertebra has two short broad thick processes, with a rounded interrupted perforation between them ; the third and fourth have a thin long shelving-down upper, and a short straight lower process; the fifth, sixth, and seventh are similar, but have only an upper lateral process ; the fifth is the thinnest, and the seventh the thickest. The arms were 10 feet long ; the cartilage between the bones of the anns and the fingers is nearlj' half as long as the arm-bones; there are four bones immersed in it, small, variously shaped and sized; the cartilage between the elongated finger-bones is nearly half as long as the phalanges; the phalanges nearly all of the same oblong shape, and subsymmetrical in form. The bones of the skull are so fragile as scarcely to bear their own weight. Moore, in the lithographic ' Naturalist's Scrap-Eook' (p
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