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Harris, as recorded by Dr. B. Brown {Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., 

 4th Ser., vn., p. 65), who has been further informed of two being 

 seen about Orkney and Shetland in 1857 (P. Z. S., 1868, p. 433). 



Order IV.: CETACEA. 



[Family: BALAENIDAE.] 

 [Balaena mysticetus, Linnaeus. — The Greenland Bight- Whale 

 has generally been included in Scottish lists, but the Bight- Whale 

 which certainly visited the British seas in old times was probably 

 the more southern species, B. biscayensis, Eschricht, which appears 

 to be now almost extinct on the European side of the Atlantic. 

 There is, however, no authentic evidence of the occurrence of any 

 Bight-Whale on our coasts in modern times, most of the records 

 being referable to one or other of the Borquals (cf. Bell's Br. 

 Quad,, 2nd ed., pp. 381-391).] 



Family: BALAENOPTERIDAE. 

 22. Megaptera longimana (Rudotyhi). 



Hump-backed Whale. 



Only one authenticated specimen of this large Cetacean has been 

 captured in the Scottish seas, an adult measuring in length 48 feet, 

 which was towed into Wick Bay in March, 1871; its pectoral 

 limbs each measured 14 feet. A description of this specimen was 

 published by Mr. W. Beid, in " Land and Water" (1st April, 

 1871); the skeleton was not preserved, but Prof. Turner obtained 

 some of the baleen for the Anatomical Museum of the University 

 of Edinburgh. The species has also occurred at least twice on 

 the English coasts (cf. Bell's Brit. Quad., 2nd ed., p. 394). 



23. Balaenopteka musculus (Linnaeus). 



Common Rorqual, or Bazor-back. 



Ore, Firmer. (Common to next two species.) 



Appears not to be uncommon off the Orkney and Shetland Isles; 

 three, taken there in 1856, were described by Dr. Duguid (P. Z. S., 

 1856, p. 187), and distinguished as a new species, Physalus duguidii, 

 by Gray (Cat. Seals and Whales, p. 158; cf. Bell's Br. Quad,, 2nd 

 ed., p. 399). A number of other large Borquals have been re- 

 corded as occurring on the shores of the mainland and in the 



