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ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS. 



" The baleen is entirely black, without any other colour. "We hav-e 

 two kinds in the Museum — one 5^ feet, and the other 1 foot 8 inches 

 in length. This last only may be from the Bcdimoptera ; the other 

 perhaps from a Balcena, because it is much more slender and more 

 fiinged. 



" Comparing my drawing (fig. 76) with that of Cuvier from the 

 Cape Bal(m,o])tera (Oss. Foss. pi. 26. fig. 2), you will find that the 

 suture between the frontal bone and the parietal is situated much 



Fig. 78. 



Second cervical vertebra. 

 Fig. 79. 



Fourth cervical vertebra. 



more towards the external part of the frontal bone, being in my skull 

 exactly in the angle where both bones are united, and therefore not 

 seen from above in my di-awing. Another diifcrencc of the species 



