102 BAL^NOPTERIDiE. 



'' In the Leyden Museum there arc two skeletons ; the first a very 

 beautiful and perfect specimen from the same locality as the last- 

 mentioned skeleton. The baleen is in situ on both sides of the mouth, 

 never having been removed. The animal was in the adolescent 

 stage. The epiphyses of the upper end of the radius and ulna are 

 united, but that of the head of the humerus is stiU. separable. The 

 entire length is 23' 2", of which the head occupies 5' 2". The 

 vertebral formula is C. 7, D. 11, L. 12, C, 17=47 ; but one or more 

 bones are wanting from the end of the tail. The cervical vertebrae 

 are all free. The upper and lower transverse processes of the sixth 

 are united on the right side, but separate on the left. The other 

 skeleton of the same species is rather larger, but not so complete. 

 The cervical vertebrae are all free, and none of the transverse pro- 

 cesses (excepting those of the second) are united at their ends." — 

 Flower, P. Z.S. 1864, 418. 



" In the Louvain Museum there are two skeletons, but neither of 

 them yet articulated. The first is young and not very perfect ; it formed 

 part of the old anatomical collection of the University. The second 

 and third cervical vertebrae are anchylosed by their arches ; all the 

 rest are free ; the transverse processes are not fully developed. The 

 second is a fine perfect skeleton of an adolescent individual obtained 

 more recently from the Norway coast. The cervical vertebra) are 

 all free from each other ; the upper and lower transverse processes 

 fully developed ; those of the axis and the sixth vertebra united 

 together on both sides ; the others all separate. A small tubercle 

 represents the inferior transverse process on both sides of the body 

 of the seventh yertehra:'— Flower, P. Z. S. 1864, 409. 



" Skeleton of a young individual, in the Louvain Museum, marked 

 B. minima, and said to belong to a small variety only found among 

 the Right Whales of Greenland. The total length is 1 7' 3" ; but 

 several vertebrae are wanting from the end of the tail. The skull is 

 4' long. There are 7 cervical, 11 dorsal, and 12 lumbar vertebrae, 

 and 11 pairs of ribs. The cervical vertebrae are all free, and the 

 upper and lower transverse processes are not united at their ends in 

 any of them ; but in the axis the union is almost complete. There 

 is in the same Museum a skull, 3' 8" long, of a younger specimen of 

 this species."— i^ZoM^er, P. Z. S. 1864, 418. 



The skeleton figured by Albers (Icon, Anat. Comp. t. 1) was taken 

 at Bremen on the 8th of May, 1G69, and is preserved in the Town 

 Hall of that city. The skull was figured by Camper, Cotac. It is 

 29 feet long. The scapula is much broader than high, with a large 

 broad coracoid process. The sternum is slender and cross-shaped, 

 and is suspended in the place of the pubic bones. 



Professor Eschricht observes that " the Greenland TihirjuliTc, or 

 Balcena rostrata of 0. Fabricius, may bo distinct from the Norwegian 

 Vaagelival or B. minor " (4th Mem. 157). Our Greenland skull does 

 not appear to diff'er from that of the English skeleton. 



Specimens have been taken in the Thames at Deptford {Ilunfer), 

 skeleton in Mus. Coll. Surg. ; Liverpool, April 1829 (Mag. N. Hist, 

 ii. 391, 1829) ; Largo, Scotland, 15th May, 1832, 14 feet long (Mag. 



