l!.\T,.>:NOrTEKID.K. J ^ rj 



genus or species any bone that might be shown to him belongs, even 

 It It were only a phalange or a rib. 



The ear-bones of each genus, as fur as I have been able to examine, 

 seem to aftord very good characters ; but, unfortunately, they are 

 otten sent to the Museum separate from the skull and other bones 

 of the animal to which they belong. 



Skeletons of whales are sliown hi museums and gardens, without 

 any large and expensive building; indeed sHght special buildings 

 are best permitting more ventilation. In Paris, the whale's skeleton 

 IS exliibited under a glass roof in the quadrangle of the Museum ; 

 at Antwerp it is shown m a buikUng formed of galvanized iron • and 

 tney are shown in a similar manner at Edinburgh, the Isle of Wight 

 and other locahties. "^fe^^w 



I. Dorsal Jin low broad. Tectoraljin very lorn,, tcith 4 very long fingers 

 tuZ'V fT"; ^^'■''^'■ff^ ^'-eO. Cervical vertebrc/ofteu an. 

 l<n(/e,h,,h, trianyular, as/ur/h a.s broad. Jlibs 14 or 15. Coronoi'd nro- 



01 bital end. Orbit moderate. Megapternia, or Hunchbacked Whales. 

 BaLTnopterus, Geoffr. Leqons, 3Iumm. 67, 1835 



J^TT'iS'If saf'' ^'''^' ^' ^"■''"■' ^^ ' ^'"^- ^^'^'''- ^- ^^- 23' i^^o 5 



Megapteron, Gray, Zool. Ereb. d^- Terror, 51 

 Mysticetus, sp., Wagler, N. S. Amph. 33, 1840 

 JmL-enoptei-a, § Boops, Brandt, Vo,/. Alt. Orient. 4to, 1845 



K^^3llobala3ua, E.schncht, Nord. Wallthiere, xv. 1845 f„l '^ ■ 



15ala3uoptera leucopteron. Lesson, in the Nouv. Tab. Rig. Anim 202 

 SJe^d'""" *' "^"^^""'^^'"•^ despecheurs- of the ^' Haides 

 llorqual du Cap, Cur. 

 INfegapterina, Gray, P. Z. S. 1864, 205. 

 I\Irfr:ipt.Tiii;c, Floin-r, P. Z. S. 18(i4, 391 

 Bu.u.h Whale Dudley, Phil. Trans, xxxiii. 1725, no. 387, p. 258 



BaliC'Da nodosa, Bonnat. Cet. 6. 

 Balreiioptera (pars), Lacep. 



The 5»«rA m,-Alc& are easily known from the Finners {Balano- 

 ptera)m being .shorter and more robust, the skull nearly one-foiu'th of 

 the entire length, the head wider between the eves, the mouth larger 

 thelip warty, and the nose large and rounded; the plaits of the 

 beUy and throat are broad ; the dorsal is more forward ; the pectoral 

 arger and narrow, about one-fifth of the length of the body ; and the 

 tail is wider, and the lobes generally more pointed 



The skull of tliis genus is intermediate in form between that of 

 Balivna and Balmioptera. 



This kind of whale was noticed by DucUey (Phil. Trans, xxxiii. 25S) 

 He says " Fhe Bunch or llumpharlrd Mhale has a bunch standing 

 n the place where the fin does in the Fin-back ; this bunch is as 

 big as a man s head, and a foot high, slu.ped Hke a j.lu- pointin- 



