16 BALA;NA. RHACHIANECTES. 



Balcena alcontioisis Van Ben., Bull. Acad. Belg., xxv, 1868, p. 16. 



Balcena sieboldii Elliot, Syn. N. Amer. Mamm., F. C. M. Pub., n, 



1901, p. 8. Zool. Ser. 

 SIEBOLD'S BALEEN WHALE. 



Type locality. Coast of Japan. 



Geogr. Distr. North Pacific Ocean, Bering Sea, coast of North 

 America from California to the Aleutian Islands, and westward to 

 longitude 150. 



30. Balaena mysticetus Linnaeus. 



Bal&na mysticetus Linn., Faun. Seuc., n, 1761, p. 16. Elliot, 

 Syn. N. Am. Mamm., F. C. M. Pub., n, 1901, p. 8. Zool. Ser. 



Balana groenlandica Linn., Mus. Ad. Frid., i, p. 51. 



Bal&na mysticetus pittekajensis Malmg., Bikang. Svensk. Ak. 



Handl., vm, 1883, fig. 

 BOWHEAD. ARCTIC RIGHT WHALE. 



Tvpe locality. Greenland Seas. 



Geogr. Distr. Arctic Ocean, Bering Sea, south to north latitude 

 64 on east coast of Greenland, and also to coast of Labrador; in 

 Bering Sea to north latitude 55, and in Sea of Okhotsk to latitude 54. 



31. Balsena kuzira (Gray). 



Megaptera kuzira Gray, Cat. Seals and Whales, 1866, p. 130. 

 Bal&na allamak Pall., Zoog. Rosso-Asiat., i, 1831, p. 288. 

 Balana antarctica Temm., Faun. Japon., 1842, p. 21, pi. 30. (nee 



F. Cuv.) 

 Balcsna australis Schrenck, Reis. Amur-Land, i, 1858, p. 193. 



(nee Gray.) 

 Balcsna kuzira Elliot, Syn. N. Am. Mamm., F. C. M. Pub., n, 1901, 



p. 9. Zool. Ser. 



GRAY'S JAPANESE BALEEN WHALE. 

 Type locality. Coast of Japan. 

 Geogr. Distr. Japan Seas, North Pacific, Bering Sea. 



Genus 16. Rhachianectes. 



Rhachianectes Cope, Proc. Acad. Nat. Scien. Phil., 1869, p. 15. 

 Type Agapliclns ^laiti'its Cope. 



32. Rhachianectes glaucus (Cope). 



Agaphelus glancus Cope, Proc. Acad. Nat. Scien. Phil., 1868, p. 159; 

 1869, p. 15. 



