BALAENOPTERA. 313 



The Greenland Right Whale. 

 Distribution. — Arctic Seas. 



a. A flake of Baleen Dr. McGowan, i860, 



A.S.B. 



Genus BALAENOPTERA. ^ 



Balaenoptera, Lacepede Hist, Nat. Cetaces Tab. Ordres, p. xxxvi (1804)*. 



The Whales inhabiting the Northern Indian Ocean were first 

 investigated by Blyth who described, from the remains catalogued 

 below, Balaenoptera indica; Anderson (see below) believes that 

 there are at least 3 species of Finback whales found in the Indian 

 seas. Balaenoptera indica, the largest about 84 feet in length ; a 

 median-sized whale, whose existence is only indicated by certain 

 vertebrae now in the Museum, attaining a length of about 60 feet 

 for which he proposed the name Balaenoptera blythi; and a small 

 species not exceeding 40 feet, which is founded on the nearly 

 complete skeleton of the Sittang Whale (see below), for which the 

 nameB. edeni is proposed ; these whales all seem to be closely al- 

 lied to a species, Balaenoptera schlegelii, described by Prof. Flower 

 (P. Z. S., 1864, p. 400) from Java and afterwards described and 

 figured in great detail by Van Beneden and Gervais in the Osteo- 

 graphie des Cetaces ; they do not seem to differ from one another 

 at all except in size. 



Balaenoptera indica. 



Balaenoptera sp., Blytk J. A. S. B., xxi, p. 358 (1852) ;'id. J. A. S. B., xxii, 



p. 414. 

 Balaenoptera indica, Blyth J. A. S. B., xxviii, p. 488(1859) ; id. J. A. S. B., 



xxix, p. 451 ; id. Cat. no. 288, p. 93; Jerdon Matnm., p. 161 ; Anderson 



Anat. Zool. R<^s., p. 551 ; Murray Zool. Sind, p. 41. 



Distribution, — The Bay of Bengal and the northern part of the 

 Indian Ocean ; this is probably also the whale recorded from 

 the Arabian Sea and Persian Gulf. 



a. Lower jaws, left' 



9?h,mh"umW:C Amherst Isle. Arakan T. P. Sparks, A.S.B. 

 J j_i !._ I Coast. 



3rd caudal verte- 

 brae and I rib. 



[Type of Balaenoptera indica, Blyth.] 



b. Pt. of skull, atlas,\ 

 I lumbar 2 cau- 1 

 dal, body of a' 



dorsal vertebraA . Sondip Isle, Babu Uday Chand 



3 ribs, rights ^ ' nr. Chittagong, 11-74. Dutt. 



shoulder girdle, y 

 hyoid and some \ 

 epiphyses- / 



