BALAF.NOPTERA l;j 



Color. Above black or blackish brown, beneath milky white; 

 baleen light lead color. 



Mt\xiiircments. Total length, 60 feet. 



a. — copei. 



borealis. Cope (nee Auct). in Scammon 303, fig. p. 37. 



Type locality. Shumagin Islands, Alaska. 



Geogr. Distr. Nortiiern Seas and Aleutian Islands. 



Genl Char. "Dorsal fin large and high; flukes black in some, 

 white below in others, and in a few, white on external parts of flukes." 



CoL'r. Black above, milky white beneath. 



17. physalus. {Bahena), Linn. Syst. Nat., 1766, i, p. 106. 



hoops, Linn. Syst. Nat., 1766, i, p. 106. 



rorqual, Lacep. C6t., 1804, pp. 37, 126. 



dugttidi, Heddle, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1856, p. 187. 



communis, Van Ben. Bull. Acad. Brux., ser. i, 1S57, i, p. 403. 



kno.xii. Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1864, p. 212. 



Gcogr. Disir. Arctic and Atlantic Oceans, Mediterranean Sea. 

 On North American coast from Greenland to New Jerse)'. 



Genl. Char. Flippers relatively short; baleen short, narrow. 

 N'ertebr*, 62; ribs 16 pairs. 



Color. Above grayish slate, beneath white. Baleen slate color 

 variegated with yellow and brown. 



Measitremen/s. Total length, 65 to 70 feet. 



18. bore.ilis. Less. Hist. Nat. C(5t., 1828, p. 342. 



Gei'gr. Dist. Arctic and North Atlantic Oceans, Mediterranean Sea. 



Genl. Char. Size less than B. physalus: flippers very small, one- 

 eleventh of total length. Vertebra;, 55; ribs 14 pairs. 



Colcr. Above bluish black, with light colored oblong spots; 

 beneath white. Flippers and tail black. 



.Measurements. Total length, 50 feet. 



19. musculus. {Bahena), Linn. Syst. Nat., 1766, p. 106. 



physalus. Pall. Zoogr. Ross. Asiat., 1830, p. 290. 



sihbaldi. Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1847, p. 92. 



tectirostris. Cope, Proc. Acad. Nat. Scien. Phil., 1869, p. 17. 



T\pe locality. Coast of Yorkshire, England. 



Geogr. Distr. Arctic and North Atlantic Oceans. 



Genl. Char. Size very large; flippers one-seventh of the total 

 length of body. Dorsal fin small, placed far back on the body. 

 \'ertebraj, 64; ribs 16 pairs. 



Color. General hue dark bluish gray, with small white spots 

 on the breast. Baleen black. 



Measurements. Total length, 80 to 85 feet. 



