2. POEScoriA. 



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Nat. Lib. vi. t. 6. He points out that lludolphi and M. ¥. Cuvicr, 

 in their description of B. lonf/lmnna, have confounded the figure of 

 Baleine du Cap an(\. liorqual du Cap, of Cuvier's ' Ossemens Fossiles,' 

 together. — Faun. Japon. 21, note. 



Gervais (Zool. et Paleont. Franc;, t. 38. f. 7) figures some tympanic 

 bones under the name of liorqiudus de Bayonne. They are verj' like 

 those of Meijaptera longimana, and are larger than those of Balcv- 

 noptera rostrata. 



2. POESCOPIA. 



Blade-bone with a small coracoid process. Body of the cervical 

 vertebraj nearly square, with the angles rounded. 

 Inhab. South Sea. 



Megaptera, § Poescopia, Grai/,Proc. Zool. Sac. 18(i4, 207 ; An». ^- Ma//. 

 N. H. 1864, xiv. 350. 



Fisr. 10. 



The fifth cer\'ical vertebra of Megaptera Lalaiiclii. 



Ribs 14 ; the second, third, and fourth attached to the vertebra;, 

 the rest to the processes. Vertebrae 52. — Cuv. Oss. Foss. v. 382. 



The humerus very short ; forearm-bones nearly twice as long as 

 the humerus ; fingers 4, very long, the second longest, twice as long 

 as the lower arm -bone. Phalanges 3.8.8.4, the third finger nearly 

 as long as the second, the first and fourth much shorter, not half as 

 long a-s the first, thicker.— C'»v. Oss. Foss. vi. t. 26. f. 22. 



According to Cuvier, it differs from the (ireenland Megaptera in 

 the following particulars : — 



