162 BALT.XOrTEEIDJE. 



2. Physalus Brasilieusis. 



Balsenoptem Brasiliensis, Gniy, Zool. E. &• T. 51 ; Cat. Od. Spec. Apji. 



142. 

 Physalus Brasilieusis, Grai/, Cat. Cetac. B. M. 1850, 43. 



I have also received from Mr. Smith specimens of what is called 

 in trade Bahia Finner. This baleen is black ; the fibres on the edge 

 of the larger flakes are piu'plish brovrn, and of the smaller or terminal 

 ones paler brown. They are 35 inches long by Hi inches wide; 

 and the smaller, 10 inches long and 4 inches vride at the base. This 

 is so different in appearance from the other baleen of this genus that 

 I propose to call it Bahenoj^item Brasiliensis. 



a. Three plates of baleen, "Bahia Finner.'' Bahia. 



3. Physalus ? fasciatus. The Peruvian Finner. 



" Lower jaw scarcely longer than the upper; head and back ash- 

 brown ; belly whitish ; tips of fins and a streak from the eye to the 

 middle of the body white. Length 38 feet." — Tschudi. 



Balaenoptera, n. s., Tschudi, Mamm. Coiisp. Peruana, 13. 

 Balffinoptera Tschudi, Heich. Cetac. 33 ; Wiegm. Arch. 1844, 255. 

 Pliysalus fasciatus, Gray, Cat. Cetac. B. 31. 1850, 42. 



Inhab. coast of Pern. 



4. Physalus Indicus. 

 " Lower jaw remarkably slender." 



Balccnoptera Indica, Great Rorqual of the Indiau Ocean, Bli/th, Jimrn. 



A. S. xxi. 358, xxii. 414 ; Bep. Asiatic Society Calcutta, xxviii. 5 ; 



Friend of Lidia, 1842, Sejit. lo. 

 Balaenoptera, sp., Heitylin, in Sitzmiysber. d. Math.-natunv. Acad. d. 



Wissensch. zu Wien, 1851, vii. 449. 

 Physalus, sp., Flotrer, P. Z. S. 1864, 408, note. 



Inhab. Eed Sea. Mr. Blyth records the following : — 



1. Chittagong coast, 15th August 1842, 90 feet long and 42 feet 

 in diameter. 



2. Ai-akan coast, 84 feet long. Lower jaw remarkably slender, 

 the coronoid process well developed. Length 21 feet, liadius 38| 

 inches long. 



3. A large jaw-bone of a ^Tiale (Asiat. Kes. xv. Append.p. xxsiv). 



4. Yertebra and cranium of a WTiale {Asiat. lies. xvii. 624, and 

 Glean, of Science, ii. 71). 



5. A skuU and lower jaw, 10 feet long, from Ai'akan. In the 

 Museum of the Calcutta Medical College. 



'WTiales seem to have been not unfrequently stranded on the coast 

 of Mekran. Thus Xearchus, the commander of Alexander's fleet from 

 the Indus to the Persian Gidf, b.c. 327, described the Ichtlujopluigi 

 of that woodless region as using the bones of whales for building- 

 purposes (see Vincent's Voyage of Nearchus, p. 267-269, quoted by 

 Blyth). 



" Whales are very rarely seen " in Ceylon ; " a dead one is occa- 



