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p. 347) is completely wrong in stating that the range of edeni is "restricted 

 to the cold south." 



Balaenoptera borealis Lesson 



Balcena rostrata Rudolphi (not Fabricius or Mtiller), 1822, Abh, Akad. 

 Wiss. Berlin, 1820-21: 27-40, 5 pis. [N. Atlantic: Germany (Holstein, 

 1819 stranding)]. 



Balanoptera borealis Lesson, 1828, Complements des oeuvres de Buffon 

 ou Histoire naturelle des animaux rares, 1 (Cetaces) : 342 [not pi. 

 \2=B. acutorostrata].— True, 1898, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., 21: 635, 

 ftns. 2, 3 [rostrata Rudolphi 1822 preoccupied by Balaena rostrata 

 Miiller=?] Beddard, 1900, Book of whales, p. 154 [characters; 

 habits. — Racovitza, 1903, Expedition Antarctique Belgique, fig. 14 

 (spouting) [between 82°38' W. to 94°42' W. and 69°50' S. to 70°52' S.; 

 between 47° to 59° W., and 59° to 66° S.; between 165° to 175° E., 

 and 65° to 76° S.; characters; breaking, blowing, and diving move- 

 ments]. — Morch, 1911, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1911: 160 [S. 

 Atlantic: Argentina (Patagonia); Falklands; South Shetlands; South 

 Georgia; habits; movements]. — Liouville, 1913, Deuxieme Exped. 

 Antarctique Franchise, 1908-1910, fig. 7 (flippers), pi. 2, fig. 3 (animal) 

 [taxonomy; habits]. — Lahille, 1914, Enumeration y zoogeografia de 

 los mamiferos de la Republica Argentina, p. 33 [distribution in 

 northern and southern seas]. — Salvesen, 1914, Scottish National 

 Antarctic Expedition (1915), Zool., 4(19): 482 [S. Atlantic: Falklands; 

 whaling; commerce]. — Turner, 1915, Proc. Roy. Phys. Soc. Edin- 

 burgh, 35: 11 [S. Atlantic: South Shetlands; Graham Land]. — 

 Andrews, 1916, Mem. American Mus. Nat. Hist., (n. s.), 1(6): 291, 

 pis. 29-41 (external anatomy), figs. 1-38 (parasites; blubber; bones) 

 [taxonomy; type history; migration; parasites; anatomy; comparisons; 

 distribution cosmopolitan]. — Oliver, 1922, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 

 1922: 562 [S. Pacific: New Zealand] .—Weber, 1923, Die Cetaceen 

 der Siboga-Expedition, Siboga-Expeditie, 58: 22 [S. Pacific: Indonesia 

 (Bangori, Brebes, Java; Lamakera, Solor Island)]. — Harmer, 1928, 

 Proc. Linnaean Soc. London, 140: 69, 87 [Pacific: Japan; Ecuador; 

 Atlantic: Norway; West Africa; Southwest Africa; South Africa; 

 commercial history.] — Kellogg, 1929, Ann. Rep. Smithsonian Inst., 

 1928: 490 [S. Atlantic: Falklands; route between Falklands and Cabo 

 Frio, Brazil (20° S.); S. Pacific: Chile; Antarctica; migrations]. — 

 Carcelles, 1932, Physis, 11: 51, 61 [S. Atlantic: Argentina; South 

 Georgia; Falklands]. — Fraser, in Norman and Fraser, 1938, Giant 

 fishes, whales and dolphins, p. 227, fig. 64 (animal) [characters; 

 distribution; habits]. — Mathews, 1938, Discovery Rep., 17: 169, pis. 

 18, 19 (animal, baleen) [S. Atlantic: South Georgia; South Africa; 

 characters; comparisons; sex ratios; food; parasites; reproduction; 



