26 CETACEA. et 
bold coast of Cape St. Lucas, California.”—Bennett, Whaling 
Voyage, i. 232. Sie 
Capt. Sir James Ross observed them as far south as 71° 50! © 
Professor Eschricht believes the Keporkap of Greenland and the 
Bermuda Whale is the same species, and that it migrates from 
Greenland to Bermuda, according to the season; and he states 
that he cannot find any sufficient distinction in the skeleton of 
the Cape specimen in the Paris Museum, to separate it as a spe- 
cies from the Greenland examples. a 
Schlegel considers Balena longimana of the North Sea, the 
Rorqual du Cap, and the drawing he received from Japan, as all 
belonging to a single species, though he owns there are differences 
between them. : 
I am inclined to doubt these conclusions, and have therefore, 
until we have more conclusive evidence, considered it advisable 
to regard them as separate; especially as Cuvier’s (Oss. Foss. y. 
381) description of the union of the lateral processes of the cer- 
vical vertebra of the Cape specimen is very different from those 
of the Greenland specimens in the Museum, received from Pro- 
fessor Eschricht: see Proc. Zool. Soc. 1847, 88. 
1. MEGAPTERA LONGIMANA. JOUNSTON’S HUMP-BACKED 
WHALE. 
Cervical vertebree all free. ql 
Black, pectoral fin and beneath white, black varied; lower lip 
with two series of tubercles ; pectoral nearly + the entire length 
dorsal elongate, the front edge over end of pectoral; throat and 
belly grooved. 
Female : upper and lower lip with a series of tubercles ; dorsal 
an obscure protuberance.—Johnston, 1. c. t. 1. | 
2 Baleena musculus, Ascan. Icon. Rer. Nat. m. t. 26, cop. Bo 
nat. Cet. E. M. t. 371; Schreb. Saugth. t. 335. 
2 Baleena Boops (Keporkak), O. Fab. Faun. Gren. 36? not Lin ¥ 
Keporkak or Balena Boops, Eschricht, K. Danske Vind. Sels- 
kabs. Afh. 1845, xi. 239. t. 1 & 3, 4. | 
Kyphobalena (Boops), Eschricht, Nord. Wallthier. 1849. a 
Balena longimana, Rudolphi, Mem. Acad. Berl. 1829, 133. t. 12,> 
mas, cop. Brandt and Ratzeburg, t. 15. f. 2. E | 
Whale, Johnston, Trans. Newcastle N. H. Soc. i. 6. t. 1, female 
on back. ' ’ 
Megaptera longimana, Gray, Zool. E. & T. 17. | 
Megapteron longimana, Gray, Zool. E. 5; T. 51; Proc. Zool. Soe 
1847, 89. 
Inhab. North Sea, mouth of the Maese, Rudolphi. Newcastle. 
Johnston. 
