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[[underline]] Delphinapterus vermontanus [[/underline]] Thpsn

  In 1850, Z. Thompson reported that there had been found in Charlotte township about 12 miles south of Burlington, the bones of 
[[left margin note]] [Spec. 1.] [[/left margin note]]
a fossil porpoise, comprising a line of vertebrae [[underline]] plus [[/underline]] 13, sternum, ribs, greater part of the head, 9 teeth, [[insertion]] ^ hyoid, [[/insertion]] bones of one forearm, several chevrons - He compared the bones with the figures of [[underline]] Delphinus leucas, [[/underline]] the Beluga, in Cuvier's [[underline]] Os. foss. [[/underline]] and concluded they belonged to the same genus [[strikethrough]] but to a separate [[/strikethrough]] and "to La cépede's subgenus [[underline]] Delphinapterus, [[/underline]] but a separate species, which he named [[underline]] Delphinus Vermontanus [[/underline]] - Prof. Agassiz also thought they were allied to [[underline]] D. leucas. [[/underline]]
[[left margin note]] [Spec 1.] [[/left margin note]]
  In 1853, Thompson in App. to Hist. of Vt., p. 15, redescribed the bones under the name [[underline]] "Beluga vermontana. [[/underline]] - Thompson" - He here employs the name [[underline]] Beluga leucas [[/underline]] [[strikethrough]] in quot [[/strikethrough]] in referring to Cuvier's [[underline]] Os. foss. [[/underline]], instead of [[underline]] Delphinus leucas [[/underline]]
  He adds that he has had an opportunity to compare 3 heads of [[underline]] B. leucas [[/underline]] in the Hunterian Mus., London, and an entire skeleton in Agassiz's coll. at Cambridge, Mass. He repeats the figures originally published in 1850.

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C. Lacepede. 1804. Histoire Naturelle des Cetacees 1-329