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about 3 to ¢ of the thickness—much more in proportion than they 
do on the Greenland fins, and the enamel and fibre are coarser in 
texture and much more brittle. 
The fins or blades of this whalebone are generally flexuous, or 
“not kindly,” so that when cut into strips, they have the defect of 
being variously bent, and tapermg towards the end, which, with 
their brittleness, greatly reduces their value. 
Mr. Bennett observes that “ The Right Whale, so abundant, 
and so little molested in the northernmost waters of the Pacific, 
or off the north-west coast of America, is probably identical with 
the Greenland species.” —Whaling Voyage, ii. 229. The whale- 
bone or baleen shows it is more allied to the Cape species, but 
apparently distinct from it. 
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5. BALZNA ANTARCTICA. The New ZEALAND WHALE. 
Balna antipodarum, Gray, Dieffenbach, N. Zealand, t. 1. 
Right Whale, Polach, N. Zealand, ii. 401. 
Balena antarctica, Gray, Zool. Erebus and Terror, Cete, 16. t. 1, 
not Lesson. : 
Inhab. New Zealand, Jackson Bay. 
Described from a very accurate drawing of a specimen taken im 
Jackson Bay; it is very like Temminck’s figure of B. australis, 
but there is a roundish promimence on the front of the under jaw 
similar to the one on the nose ; the latter is only figured im that 
species ; the pectoral fin, as in that species, is about 2 from the 
chin. 
M. Milne-Edwards informs me that a skeleton of this whale 
has been lately received by the Paris Museum. ; 
Lesson, Giuv. Buffon, 1. 391 (Tab. Reg. Anim. 202) ; Wagler, 
N. S. Aus. 33, give the name of “ B. antarctica”’ to the | a uel t 
or Black Whale of the whalers of the Antarctic seas.” 
Chamisso figures a species of Whalebone Whale as Balena 
Kuliomoch, found in the Aleutian seas, from a wooden model made 
by the Aleutians: see N. Act. Nat. Cur.t.1@f.1. It isnoticed 
as B. Culammak by Pallas, Zool. Ross. Asiat. i. 288. . 
** Back knobbed. ? Cyphonotus, Rafin. 
6. BALZNA GIBBOSA. The ScRAG WHALE. 
“ A Scrag Whale. Is near akin to the Fin-back, but instead 
of a fin upon its back, the ridge of the after-part of its back is 
scragged with half-a-dozen knobs or knuckles. He is nearest the 
Right Whale (B. mysticetus) in figure and quantity of oil. His 
bone (whalebone) is white, but wont split.”,—Dudley. 
“A Serag Whale,” Dudley (Phil. Trans. xxxii. (259)5 a 
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