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BALSNOPTERID^, 



Soc' 1840, p. 11, arc evidently from the same animal, but there are 

 some discrepancies between them. Mr. Sweeting saj's, breadth 

 21 feet ; Mr. YarrcU says, girth 21 feet. Mr. Sweeting, total weight 

 25 tons ; Mr. Yarrell, probable weight between 20 and 25 tons. 

 Mr. Sweeting, length of skeleton 41, and head 11 feet ; Mr. Yarrell, 

 40, and head 10 feet. Mr. Sweeting says, " For the discrepancy as 

 to the number of vertebrae, &c., I am of opinion that this species 

 has not been described before, and I have proposed for it the name 

 BaJcnnoptera tenuirostris " (Mag. Nat. Hist. 24th March, 1840, 342). 



The skeleton here described was sold, about sixteen years ago 

 (1859), for five pounds, to Mr. Freane, and it was stated to have 

 been sent to London as a present to the British Museum, but it has 

 never been received, and I cannot find any further account of it ; 

 probably it was sold for manure. B. tenuirostris is the earliest name 

 given specially to this species, but it cannot be used for a whale 

 with a broad nose or beak. This is most likely the same as the 

 " Ostend Whale," or a nearly allied species. The dorsal fin . is 

 described as small, conical, and three-fourths the length from the 

 nose. 



*** Dorsal fin unknown. First rib elongate, dilated at sternal end. 



3. Sibbaldius Schlegelii. 



Balsenoptera Physalus, from Java, ScJdegel, Mns, Leyden. 



Balaenoptera Schlegelii, Flower, MS. 



"Megaptera (from Java)," Van Beneden, Gray, P. Z. S. 1864, 208. 



Balaenoptera longimana, Schlegel, Miis. Letjden. 



Sibbaldiis Schlegelii, Gray, Ann. (^- Maq. N. H. 1864, xiv. 352. 



Sibbaldius Schlegelii, Floiver, P. Z. S. 1864, 408, 419. 



Inhab. Java. Skeleton, Mus. Leyden (young); skull, Mus. Leyden. 

 Fig. 40. 



First rib of Sibbaldius Schlegelii ?, in Mus. Roy. Coll. Surgeons. 



There is the first rib of a whale of this genus in the Museum of the 

 Royal College of Surgeons, which, if it is not this, would seem to in- 

 dicate a fourth species.' The origin of the specimen is imknown. 



