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ADDITIONS AND COREECTIONS. 



" The baleen is entirely black, without any other colour. We have 

 two kinds in the Museum — one 5^ feet, and the other 1 foot 8 inches 

 in length. This last only may be from the Balcenoptera ; the other 

 perhajis from a Balcena, because it is much more slender and more 

 fringed. 



" Comparing my drawing (fig. 76) with that of Cuvier from the 

 Cape Balimoptera (Oss. Foss. pi. 26. fig. 2), you will find that the 

 suture between the frontal bone and the parietal is situated much 



Fiff. 78. 



Second cervical vertebra. 

 Fig. 79. 



Foiu-th cervical vertebra. 



more towards the external part of the frontal bone, being in my skull 

 exactly in the angle where both bones are united, and therefore not 

 seen from above in my di-awing. Another difference of the species 



