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[[circled]] 2 [[/circled]] of a comparatively perfect skeleton of a whale, [[left margin]] Spec. 5 [[/left margin]] which he also calls [[underlined]] Beluga Vermontana [[/underlined]], in a clay pit near Cornwall, Ont. This specimen is also in our Museum. About a month ago, we heard of the discovery of a fourth skeleton, of [[strikethrough]] [[?]] [[/strikethrough]] what proved to be a small whale, at a place called Pakenham, some 44 miles from here, in Ontario. It was found in Pleistocene clay, while digging a well, & only a portion of it, consisting of the skull, [[strikethrough]] three [[/strikethrough]] [[insertion]] ^ five [[/insertion]] of the cervical, & three of the dorsal vertebra, with several of the anterior epiphyses, was dug out. These remains, which are at present in my possession, are evidently those of a very young individual. That they are specifically the same as the Cornwall & Montreal specimens which Billings referred to [[underlined]] Beluga Vermontana [[/underlined]], & with the Burlington specimen that Thompson described as [[underlined]] Delphinus Vermontanus [[/underlined]], seems to me almost certain. But, are the [[underlined]] D. Vermontanus [[/underlined]] of Thompson, & the [[underlined]] B. Vermontana [[/underlined]] of Billings, really distinct from the common living [[underlined]] Delphinapterus leucas [[/underlined]]? Have you ever formed any opinion on this point?