I. BAL.ENA. 89 



of tooth in tho lower jaw in the place of the baleen, and with a small 

 dorsal on its back, again appears in Duhaniel (iv. t. 9. f. 2), under 

 the name of '• Baleine en Giiince," from the Kiver Gaboon, where, 



he says, it is called Grampus hj the English. 



2. Balaena Biscayensis. 



Baleine de Biscave, Van Benedcn, Bull. Acad. Roy. Belgique, 18G1, 4G2. 

 Baltena Biscayensis, Gray, P. Z. S. 1864, 200. (^ 



Baleine fraucte du golfe de 'Bisca.ye,£scJin'cht, Comptes Rendus,18QQ ; ■' i- '^^ // li 

 Actes de la Soc. Linn, de Bordeaux, 1. 13. 4"= livr. ^ * ' j /j'^ 



Balsena Eubaltena Biscayensis, Flower, P. Z. S. 1864, '391, f^ Y" 



Inhab. Bay of Biscay, St. Sebastian. A female and its young, / / g^^^ 



Jan. 1860. Skeleton at the Mus©»ffl-crf-Pa-mpeluua. ^\ijl/> ^e*^ '? '*/^"^^^ 



The Right AMiale of the Bay of Biscay {B. Biscayensis) is regarded P j 



as a different species by Eschricht and Van Bcneden. — dray, F.Z.S. A*^V 

 1864, 200. « (y-J-^ 



Cuvier observes that the Right Whale was formerly taken in the *1_---t^ — ' 

 Gulf of Gascony, but that now it is only found on the shores of^ /■, y.1- 

 Greenland, Iceland, and Spitzbergen. (See Cuv. Oss. Foss. ed. 4. vii. hL.^/ 

 252 ; also Eschr. & Reinh. Nord. Hvaler, p. 479, note.) jjh-^^-^^ 



" MM. Eschricht and Reinhardt (Om Nordhvalen) have conclu- , 



sively proved that the habitat of B. Jlysficetas is, and always has been, ^t^^"^'' 

 exclusively confined to the Polar Seas, and therefore that it has no ^ 

 claim to a place in the European fauna. The Right ^\"hale of the »< , ^ .' 

 North Atlantic, formerly chased by the Basque whalers, belongs to 

 this section (Euhalcena) of the family." — Floiver, P. Z. S. 1864, 391. 



M. Eschricht obsei-ves, " Le squolette de Pampelune m'occupe tout 

 plein, m'ecrit-il a la date du 18«inai dernier. C'est tout ce qu'il y a 

 de plus curieux. II est presque monte, et I'enorme difference avec 

 le Mysticetus depasse tout ce que j'en avals juge lors de mon sejour a 

 Pampelune. Figiirez-vous, ajoute-t-il, qu'il n'estpas plus developpe 

 que le squelette d"uu Mysticetus de peine un an, I'ossification des 

 vertebres n'est pas encore avancce jusqu'aux apophyses transverses, 

 et les arcs qui no sont pas memo unis des deux cotes sent encore 

 separos du corps et cepcndant la colonne vertebrale a la largexir du 

 Mysticetus de trois ans et domi." (See also Eschricht " Sur le De- 

 voloppement du questionnaire relative aux Cetaces," Actes de la Soc. 

 Linn, do Bordeaux, xxii. livr. 4.) 



This theory appears to require further examination. Icebergs are 

 annually carried out from the Arctic Seas to the North Atlantic, and 

 it is probable that Right Whales may sometimes accompany them. 



I have not been able to find any details of the skeleton at Pam- 

 peluna, so that I have no authority for placing B. Biscayensis in a 

 difPerent genus from B. Mysticetus. 



