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li.VL.'ENOrTKIlID.E. 



scribed by Farincs and Carcassonne as Balcenoptera Aragous. That 

 at 8t. Tropez, in 1831^ ; those of the He Sainte Marguerite, one in 

 1797, described by LaeepO'do and Cuvier, and the other in 1804; 

 and two or three others taken near Toulon, of which the skull or 

 the entire skeleton have been preserved." — Comptes liendus, 28 Nov. 

 1864, 876 ; Ann. Sf Mmj. N. H. 1805, xv. 77. 



Albcrs (Icon. Anat. 1822, t. 1) figures, under the name of Balcena 

 Boops, the skeleton of a whale cast ashore at Vegisack, near Bremen, 

 in 1009. The length was 29 feet; length of pectoral fin 3, width 

 of tail 9 feet. Camper (Cetac. 74. t. 11, 12) figures the skull of this 

 specimen. Cuvier says he compared this skuU with the one from 

 He St. Marguerite, figured by Lacepede, and could see no difference 

 between them. Albers's figures would lead to the idea that the 

 lower jaw was scarcely wider than the upper ; this is corrected by 

 Camper. Professor Eschricht considers Albers's specimen the same 

 as Hunter's B. rosfrata ; but it agrees with the whales of this genus 

 in having 34 and 35 lumbar and caudal vertebrae. 



The upper and lotver lateral processes of the third, fourth, fifth, and sixth 

 cervical vertebrce elongate, slender, free at the ends ; the upper one bent 

 down ; the lateral process of the second cervical large, truncated. Bodi/ 

 of the cervical vertebrce oblong, ovate, not much broader than high ; the 

 upper edge concave ; the lower very slightly convex. Bibs 15 . 15. 



2. Physalus Dugiiidii. 



The Orkney Whale (Physalus Duguidii), Heddlc, Proc. Zool. Soc. 185G, 

 187, Mamm. t. 44 & 45, anat. J & ? ; Arch. Katun/. 1858, 56. 



Physalus Duguidii, Gray, P. Z. S. 1864, 221. f. 13, l4, 15; Ann. ^■ 

 Mat). N. H. 1864, 352. 



Hihab. Orkney {Heddle). 



AthiH of PJiysaliis Duguidii. 

 Extreme Avidth 21 inclies; height 12^ inches. 



