144 BAL^NOPTERIDiE. 



* The uj)per and lower lutefal processes of the third, fourth, Jifth, aiul sixth 

 cervical vertehrce elongate, united, forming a ring : the bodies of the cer- 

 vical vertebra oblong, transverse, much wider than high, the upper and 

 lower edge nearly straight; the lateral process of the second cervical 

 elongated. Ribs 14 . 14. 



1. Physalus antiquorum. Tlie Razorhach. 



Slate-grey, beneathi whitish. Ealeen slate-coloured ; under edge 

 bhickish, inner edge pale streaked. 



Razorback of the whalers. " B. Physalus, Linn. B. Gibbar, Lacep.''^ — 



Scoresby, Arct. Reg. i. 479. 

 Balsena maximus borealis, Knox, Cat. Prep. Whale. 

 Great Northern Rorqual {Knox), Jardine, Nat. Lib. t. 6 (skeleton). 

 Phvsalus antiquoi-uui, Graii, P. Z. S. 1847, 96 ; Cat. Cetac. 38 ; P. Z. S. 



l8G4, 21G. f. 9-12 ; HeJdle, P. Z. S. 1855, 195, fig. verteb. bad. 

 Rorqual de la Mediterrauee, Lacep. t. 5. f. 1 ; Cuvier, Oss. Foss. v, 



370. t. 26. f. 5. 

 Bala3na, Shatv, Zool. Misc. t. 720, from Lacep. t. 5. f. 1. 

 Bala^na antiquorum, Fischer, Syn. 525 (from Cuiier). 

 BalaBuoptera antiquorum, Gray, Zool. E. ^' T. 50. 

 Balpeua Physalus, Turton, B. F. 15; Jetiyns, Man. 47; Nilsson, Skand. 



Fauna, 636. 

 Balsenoptera Boops (part.), Fleming, B. A. 31 ; Jcnyns, Man. 47. 

 Balasna musculus, Turton, B. F. l6 ; Jenyns, Man. 47 ; Malmgren, 



Arch. Nat. 1864, 97. 

 Balsenoptera musculus, Fleming, Brit. Aniyn. 30 ; F. Cuv. Cetac. 335 ; 



Fschr. SfReinh. Om Nordhv. t. 3. f. 2 (skull), t. 4. f. 6; Lifljeborg, 



I. c. 42 ; Malmgren, Arch. Nat. 1864, 94. 

 Balpenoptera acuto-rostrata, Scoresby, Arct. Reg, i. 485. t. 13. f. 2. 

 Balajnoptera Boops, Bell, B. Quad. 620. f. 1. 

 Baltenoptera Physalus, Schleg. de Dieren, 101. t. 20. 

 Rorqualus antiquorum, Gervais, Compt. Rend. 1864, 676. 

 Balsena Physalus, O. Fabr. Faun. Grcenl. 35. 

 Physalus vulgaris, Fleming, Brit. Anitn. 32. 

 Balaenoptera Gibbar, Scoresby, Arct. Reg. i. 478. 

 Balsenoptera arctica, Schleg. Abhandl. 10. t. 9. 

 Bala3noptera borealis (part.), Rapp, Cetac. 51. 

 Pterobalaena communis, Eschricht, Van Beneden, Ball. Acad. Bru.r. 



ser. 1. 1857, i. 39;) ; Bull. Acad. Belg. xxii. 464 ; Nouv. Mem. Acad. 



Brux. xxxii. (1861) 37; Arch. Naturg. 1858, 57. 

 Baleine de Sainte Cyprien, Companyo, Mem. 4to, 1830 ; Carcassonne 



^- Farines, Mem. ; F. Cuv. Cetac. 337. 



The following may probably belong to this species : — 



1. Balpeua tripennis qua) rostrum acutum habet, Sibbald, Phalanol. 29. 



t. 1. f. 1), E, cop. Bonnat. Cet. E. M. t. 3. f. 2; Schreb. t. 354.— 



Nov. 17, 1690, O. S. (46 feet long). 

 Pike-headed Wliale, Penn. B. Zool. iii. 40. 

 Baljena J5oops, Linn. S. N. i. 106. 

 Bala3na borealis, var. Jioops, Fischer, Syn. 524. 

 Bahienoptcra Jubartes, Lacep. Cet, 120. t. 4. f. 1. 

 Jupiter-iish, Anderson, Lsl. 220. 

 Pike-headed Mysticete, Sha^v, Zool. ii. 492. t. 227. 



2. Bahena tripennis qure maxillam inferiorem rotundam &c., Sibbald, 



Phalcenol. 33. 1.3; (edit. 1792)78. t.3, cop. Bo7mat. Cet. E. M. t. 3. f. 1. 

 Round-lipped VVliale, Pennant, Quad. iii. 42. 



