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CETACEA. 15 
a, b, c. Three plates of baleen. Length, 20 mches; width at 
the base, 2 inches 6 lines. Western Australia. Presented by 
J. Warwick, Esq. 
The specimens figured in the ‘ Voyage of the Erebus and 
Terror,’ tab. 1. fig. 1. 
This species is only known from three laminz of baleen. It is 
so much smaller and broader, compared with its width at the 
base, and so differently coloured from the baleen of any of the 
other species, that I feel justified m considering it as distinct. 
+t Baleen thick, rather brittle; enamel thin, internal fibres 
numerous, thick, rather intertwined, forming a thick rigid 
fringe. 
3. BALZNA AUSTRALIS. The CAPE WHALE. 
Uniform black. Skull convex. The nose of the skull high, 
straight, and rather suddenly bent down in front ; the nose and the 
intermaxillary bones contract in the middle, and then continue of 
the same width in front. The hinder part of the jaw-bones is 
nearly perpendicular, and the temporal bones are broad and 
erect.—Cuv. Oss. Foss. v. t. 25. f£. 5-7. 
The foetal skull is shorter, lower, and the hinder part of the 
jaw-bone is more slanting.—Cuv. Oss. Foss. v. t. 25. f. 1-3. 
Baleen is about 6 feet long, elongate triangular, rather rapidly 
tapering to a fine pomt. The imternal fibres are rather coarse, 
but much finer than the former. 
Balena australis, Desmoulin, Dict. Class. H. N. ii. 161. t. 140. 
f. 3, foetus; Gray, Cat. Mam. B.M. 104; Zool. Ereb. and 
Terror, 15, 48. t. 1. f. 3, baleen. 
B. du Cap, Cuv. Oss. Foss. v. 368. t. 24. t. 25. f. 1-8, t. 26. f. 7, 
mee tc, oo, t, 2/. 1-10; 15, 24. 
The Cape Whale, or Right Whale of South-Sea Whalers, Ben- 
nett, Narr. Whaling Voyage, u. 229. 
Southern Whalebone Whale, Nunn, Narrat. Favourite, 181, 
fig. 2. 
Rca Black Whale, Ross, Antarctic Voy. 1.169; i. 327. 
Inhab. South Sea, Delalande. Antarctic Ocean, Ross. Skeleton 
and foetus, Mus. Paris. 
a. Bone of fore-arm. Cape of Good Hope. 
b, ec. Two plates of ‘South Sea Whalebone.” Pacific Ocean ? 
Presented by Messrs. Smith and Simmonds. 
The specimens figured im the ‘ Voyage of the Erebus and Ter- 
ror, p. 48. tab. 1. fig. 3. 
d, e. Two plates of whalebone. Pacific Ocean ? 
Mr. Warwick has kindly sent me some notes and the following 
