BARNACLE GEESE— GOOSE BARNACLES. 



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aurita of Linnaeus. The species of the whale from which 

 these Barnacles were taken was not mentioned, but it was 

 probably the " hunch-backed " whale, Megaptera longimana. 



FIG, 40. — WHALE BARNACLE (Corouiila diadcma), WITH THREE 

 Co7ichoderma aiiHta attached to it. 



which is generally infested with this Coroniila. This very 

 illustrative specimen was, and I hope still is, in Mr. Buck- 

 land's Museum at South Kensington. It was described by 

 him in Land and Water, of May 19th, 1866, and I am 



