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on the discovery of this Pakenham skeleton, for publication in the Febrary No. of the "Ottawa Naturalist".

It seems to me clear that all the remains of [[underlined]] Delphinapterus [[/underlined]] that have been found so far, in the Pleistocene of Vermont; the Jacquet River, N.B.; Riviere du Loup (en bas) & Montreal, P. 2.; & Cornwall & Pakenham, Ont.; are referable to one species.

Billings, writing of the Cornwall specimen, refers it pretty confidently to [[underlined]] Beluga Vermontana [[/underlined]], but does not offer any opinion as to its identity (or otherwise) with the living species that we now call [[underlined]] Delphinaterus lencas [[/underlined]].

But, in his list of the vertebrate fossils of the Pleistocene of Eastern Canada (The Canadian Ice Age, 1893, p. 268) Sir J. W. Dawson distinctly says "there seems no good reason to believe that the [[underlined]] Beluga Vermontana [[/underlined]] of Thompson, from the Pleistocene of Vermont, is distinct from this species"; - i.e. [[underlined]] Delphinapterus leucas [[/underlined]], Pallas; which he quotes as a synonym of [[underlined]] Beluga catodon [[/underlined]].

Very truly yours,
J. F. Whiteaves.