2 CETACEA. 
The Australian baleen of B. marginata is nearly equally fine, 
and if imported might, by its natural white colour, be very useful 
for many economical purposes, notwithstanding its small size. 
The followmg paragraph from the Daily News of the 20th of 
December, 1849, gives some idea of the quantity of whalebone - 
now used :—‘ The receipts of whalebone in the United States 
since January have been 2,285,095 lbs., and the exports to date — 
were as follows:—To North Europe, 587,926 lbs.; to France, 
515,351 lbs. ; to Great Britain, 378,449 lbs. ; to other parts, 9296 
Ibs., making a total export of 1,491,022 lbs. The receipts for 
the last eight years were 18,912,206 lbs., and the exports 
11,299,811 lbs. The quantity taken for consumption during the - 
same period was 7,612,389 lbs. The stock in the United States 
at date was estimated at 903,000 lbs. : viz. in New Bedford and > 
Fairhaven, 368,000 lbs.; New York, 275,000 lbs.; in all other 
places, 260,000 lbs.” | 
These whales yield the train oil of commerce; but train ap- 
pears to be applied by the whalers as we use drain; they refer 
_ to the train of the blubber, when speaking of the oil of dolphins, © 
&c., and appear to call all blubber-oil trai, in contradiction to 
head-matter, or spermaceti, which Sibbald says is called “ whale- 
shot”? by the English; it is so called by the Dutch whalers. 
* Body smooth above. 
+ Baleen tough, flexible ; enamel thick ; internal fibres few, very | 
slender, forming a fine, thin, flaccid fringe. 
1. BALZNA MYSTICETUS. The RigHT WHALE. 
Head depressed. There are two series of tubercles on each side 
__ of the lower lip; and according to Scoresby’s figure the head is 3, 
the fins are 3, the vent 2, and the sexual organs 4 from the head. — 
Females larger than the males. 
The nose of the skull is regularly and gradually arched above, 
rather wide behind, near the blow-hole; the nose and the inter- 
maxillary bones regularly taper in front. The hinder end of the 
jaw-bones is obliquely produced behind, and the frontal bones: 
are narrow, nearly linear, and oblique; temporal bone narrow, 
oblique. 
The baleen is very long, varying from 9 to 12 feet, linear, 
tapers very gradually, and of nearly the same moderate thickness. 
from end to end, and covered with a polished grey or greenish - 
black enamel. The internal fibres occupy a small part-of the 
substance, are parallel, of a fine uniform texture, and black; 
the enamel, which forms by far the greater part of the sub- 
stance, is generally blackish; but it is sometimes, especially on 
