f CETACEA. 17 
ie. 
& 
_ some short pieces of “Southern Whale-fin,” probably forming 
_the end part of a side, at the inner, or shorter or palatine edge of 
each blade, two or three small separate linear processes of whale- 
_ bone ending a parcel of hairs similar to the pieces and form above 
_ described, but of a smaller size and rather more wavy. Scoresby, 
_ who gives a very detailed account of the position of the baleen nm 
_ Greenland whales (Arct. Reg. i. 457, and ii. 415), does not men- 
_ tion anything of the kind in that animal; but it is described as 
occurring in the Fin Back by Mr. F. Knox—see Cat. Anat. Prep. 
a7. n. 5. 
4. BaALtzNaA Japonica. The JAPAN WHALE. 
Black ; the middle of the belly to the vent, and a spot on the 
_ chin and over the eye, white ; the nose with a rounded prominence 
m front; the head is 2 the entire length; the pectoral fin large, 
pointed.—Temm. 
Baleena australis, Temm. Fauna Japon. t. 28, 29. 
'B. Japonica, Gray, Zool. E. & T. 15, 47. t. 1. f. 2, baleen. 
B. Japonica, Lacep. Mém. Mus. iv. 473; ? Desm. Mam. 528, 802; 
Fischer, Syn. 522. 
'B. lunulata, Lacep. Mém. Mus. iv.475; ? Desm. Mam. 528, 803 ; 
Fischer, Syn. 522. 
Tnhab. Japan, visiting the coast periodically. The head is often 
covered with barnacles. 
This species is only described from a model, made in porcelain 
clay by a Japanese, under the imspection of a Japanese whaler 
and M. Siebold; but no remains of the animal were brought to 
Europe. The figures in the Fauna Japonica are from this 
model. 
_ B. Japonica and B. lunulata, Lacep., are from Chinese drawings. 
Var.? 1. North-west Whale, Balena Japonica?, Gray, Zool. 
Erebus and Terror, 15. t. 1*. f. 2, baleen. 
. a,b. Two plates of “ North-west Coast Whalebone.”’ North- 
west Coast of America. Presented by Messrs. Smith and Sim- 
monds. 
The specimens figured im the ‘ Voyage of the Erebus and 
Terror,’ p. 47. tab. 1. fig. 2. 
e, d. Two plates of “ North-west Coast Whalebone.” North- 
west Coast of North America. 
__ The baleen is nearly as long as the Greenland, varying from 
7 to 12 feet long, and is slender; but for the same length it is 
nearly twice as thick in the substance, and it gradually diminishes 
‘in thickness towards the ends. The enamel, when the outer coat 
Is removed, is not so polished as that of the Greenland, and when 
cut through, the centre fibres are thicker, tubular, and occupy 
