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PLATE 43. 



FIOUKE 1. Balcena glacialis Bonnaterre. Skull from skeleton No. 23077, U. S. National Museum. Long 



Island, New York. Dorsal view. 

 Figure 2. The same specimen. Ventral view. 



PLATE 43. 



Figure 1. Bala-ua iildcialia Bonnaterre. Skull from skeleton No. 23077, U. S. National Museum. Long 



Island, New York. Lateral view. 

 Figure 2. Tlie same species. Skull from skeleton in State Museum, Raleigh, North Carolina. Cape Lookout, 



N. C. Lateral view. Photograph presented by Mr. II. II. Briiuley, Curator of the State Museum. 



PLATE 44. 



Figure 1. Bahciia cisarcUca Cope. Type-skeleton. Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences. Lateral 



view of anterior portion, including the lumbar vertebra}. 

 Figure 2. The same specimen. Lateral view of the caudal vertebrae. 



PLATE 4.5. 



Figure 1. Balana ijlacialis Bonnaterre. Skull from skeleton in Cliarleston College Museum, South Caro- 

 lina. Charleston, S. C. Lateral view. 



Figure 2. The same species. Left scapula from the same skeleton. 



Figure 3. The same species. Left scapula from skeleton in American Museum of Natural History, New 

 York. From Long Island (?), New York. Photograph presented by Dr. H. C. Bumpus, Director of 

 the American Museum of Natural History. 



Figure 4. The same species. Left scapula from skeleton in Field Columbian Museum, Chicago. Long Island, 

 New York. Photograph presented by Dr. D. G. Elliot, Curator of ManiTuals, Field Columbian Museum, 



Figure 5. The same species. Left scapula from skeleton No. 33077, U. S. National Museum. Long Island. 

 New York. 



PLATE 46. 



Figure 1. Baliena glacialis Bonnaterre. Head of specimen found dead 28 miles off Highland, Cape Cod, 

 April, 189.1. Photographed in Herring Cove, Provincetown, Mass. 



Figure 2. The same specimen. Lateral view. (The flukes are an addition by the photographer.) 



Figure 3. The same species. Stermim from skeleton in Field Columbian Museum, Chicago. Long Island. 

 New York. Photograph presented by Dr. D. G. Elliot, Curator of Mammals, Field Columbian 

 Museum. 



Figure 4. The same species. Sternum from skeleton in Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard Uni- 

 versity. Photograph presented by Mr. Outram Bangs, Curator of Mammals. 



PLATE 47. 



Figure 1. Rhachianectes glauciis Cope. No. 18803, U. S. National Museum. Monterey, Gal. Dorsal view. 

 Figure 2. The same specimen. Ventral view. 

 Figure 3. The same specimen. Lateral view. 



PLATE 48. 



Figure 1. Common Finback. Bahi'iioplera phi/salus (L.). Restoration, based on Sars's figures, amended 



from photograplis and sket<:hf'S of Newfoundland specimens. 

 Figure 3. Sulphurbottom, Bahvuoptera musculus (L.). Restoration, prepared in tlie same manner as Figure 1. 



PLATE 49. 



Figure 1. Little Piked Whale. Bahvnoptera acuto-rostrata Lacepede. Restoration, based on the Quoddy 



Head. Maine, specimen. 

 Figure 2. Pollack Wliale. BaUvuoptcra boivalig Lesson. After CoUett. 

 Figure 3. Gray Whale, Rliuchiimecfes ytaucuH Cope. After Scanuuon. 



PLATE 50. 

 Figure 1. Humpback. Megapteru jiodo.-fa (Bonnaterre). Restoration based on Sars's figures amended from 



Newfoundland specimens. 

 Figure 3. North Atlantic Right Whale, Balcena glacialis BonnateiTC. Restoration based on photographs 



of Massachusetts and Long Island specimens. 



