2. P0E9C0PIA. 



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Nat. Lib. vi. t. 6. He points out that Rudolphi and M. F. Cuvier, 

 in their description of B. longimcma, have confounded the figure of 

 BaJeine du Cap aud Rorqual du Cap, of Cuvier's ' Ossemens Fossiles,' 

 together. — Faun. Japon. 21, note. 



Gervais (Zool. et Paleont. Frang. t. 38. f. 7) figures some tympanic 

 hones under the name of Rorqiudus de Bayonne. They are very like 

 those of Megaptera longimana, and are larger than those of Balce- 

 noptera rostrata. 



2. POESCOPIA. 



Blade-bone with a small coracoid process. Body of the cei^vical 

 vertebrae nearly square, with the angles rounded. 

 Inhab. South Sea. 



Megaptera, § Poescopia, Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 18G4, 207 ; Ann. cy 3Iag. 

 N. H. 18G4, xiv. 350. 



Fi-r. 10. 



The fifth cervical vertebra of Megaptera Lalandii. 



Bibs 14; the second, third, and fourth attached to the vertebra?, 

 the rest to the processes. Vertebra? 52. — Cuv. Oss. Foss. v. 382. 



The humerus very short ; forearm -bones nearly twice as long as 

 the humerus ; fingers 4, very long, the second longest, twice as long- 

 as the lower arm-bone. Phalanges 3.8.8.4, the third finger nearly 

 as long as the second, the first and fourth much shorter, not half as 

 long as the first, thicker. — Cuv. Oss. Foss. vi. t. 26. f. 22. 



According to Cuvier, it differs from the Greenland Megaptera in 

 the following particulars : — 



