162 BAL^NOPTERIDJE. 



2. Physalus Brasiliensis. 



Balsenoptera Brasiliensis, Grmj, Zool. E. ^- T. 51 ; Cat. Ost. Spec. App. 



142. 

 Physalus Brasiliensis, Graij, Cat. Cetac. B. M. 1850, 43. 



I have also received from Mr. Smith specimens of what is called 

 in trade Bahla Firmer. This baleen is black ; the fibres on the edge 

 of the larger flakes arc pnrplish brown, and of the smaller or terminal 

 ones paler brown. They are 35 inches long by 11| inches wide; 

 and the smaller, 10 inches long and 4 inches wide at the base. Thi(^ 

 is so different in appearance from the other baleen of this genus that 

 I propose to call it Balcenoptera Brasiliensis. 



a. Three plates of baleen, " Bahia Finner." Bahia. 



3. Physalus ? fasciatus. The Peruvian Finner. 



" Lower jaw scarcely longer than the upper ; head and back ash- 

 brown ; belly whitish ; tips of fins and a streak from the eye to the 

 middle of the body white. Length 38 feet." — TsclmcU. 



Balsenoptera, n. s., TscJnifK, Mam7n. Consp. Peruana, 13. 

 Bala^noptera Tschudi, Reich. Cetac. 33 ; IViec/m. Arch. 1844, 255. 

 Physalus fasciatus, Gray, Cat. Cetac. B. M. 1850, 42. 



Inhab. coast of Peru. 



4. Physalus Indicus. 

 " Lower jaw remarkably slender." 



Balfenoptera Indica, Great Borqual of the Indian Ocean, Blyth, Journ. 



A. S. xxi. 358, xxii. 414; Pep. Asiatic Society Calcutta, xxviii. 5; 



Frie7ul of India, 1842, Sept. 15. 

 Balsenoptera, sp., Heuylin, in Sitztmysher. d. Math.-naturw. Acad. d. 



Wissensch. zu Wien, 1851, vii. 449. 

 Physalus, sp., Flotcer, P. Z. S. 18G4, 408, note. 



Inhab. Red Sea. Mr. Blyth records the following : — 



1. Chittagong coast, 15th August 1842, 90 feet long and 42 feet 

 in diameter. 



2. Arakan coast, 84 feet long. Lower jaw remarkably slender, 

 the coronoid process well developed. Length 2 1 feet. Radius 38| 

 inches long. 



3. A large jaw-bone of a Whale {Asiat. Res. xv. Append. p. xxjfiv). 



4. Yertebra and cranium of a Whale {Asiat. Bes. xvii. 624, and 

 Glean, of Science, ii. 71). 



5. A skull and lower jaw, 10 feet long, from Arakan. In the 

 Museum of the Calcutta Medical College. 



"V^Tiales seem to have been not unfrequently stranded on the coast 

 of Mekran. Thus ]!^earchus, the commander of Alexander's fleet from 

 the Indus to the Persian Gulf, b.c. 327, described the Ichthyophagi 

 of that woodless region as using the bones of whales for building- 

 purposes (see Vincent's Voyage of Ncarchus, p. 267-269, quoted by 

 Blyth). 



" Whales are very rarely seen " in Ceylon ; " a dead one is occa- 



