38 CETACEA. # 
the upper ones. Pectoral fin 4 the entire length, and rather 
more than 4, and the dorsal nearly 2, from the nose. a 
Tnhab. North Sea, coast of Holstein, 1819, Rudolphi. - i? 
The length was 31 feet 1 inch; from nose to the eye, 2 feet 
9 inches; to blower, 3 feet 11 inchibe:s ; to pectoral, 3 feet 65 
rig a 3 to the front of the dorsal, 19 feet 2 inches; to the vent, 
21 feet. F 
Cuvier copies the figure of the head of this whale as that of the ; 
- Northern Rorqual, and points out its distinctions from that which 
he had received from the Mediterranean. The nasal bones ap- 
pear much broader than in the small common Finner, i i 
noptera rostrata. ; 
73. Pea © ie Ravin, Ann. Sci. Nat. x. 266. t. 11; xv. 
337. t. 9, young male. 
“ Black above, beneath white. Pectoral black. Dorsal and 
caudal with white scar on the edge. Baleen of the first part of — 
the series white; of the rest blackish blue, the colour changing ~ 
suddenly from one to the other. q 
“ Inhab. coast of France, Somme. Ravin.” gq 
M. Ravin (Ann. Sci. Nat. n.s. xv. t. 9) figures the skull ; but } 
although it generally resembles Cuvier’s figure above quoted, q 
it is shorter and broader in proportion, bemg only twice the 
length of the width of the jaws in front of the orbit. 
14. Pallas, under the name of B. Physalus(Zool. Ross. As. 290), q 
described a specimen of this genus found in the North Sea mm ~ 
1740. It was 84 feet long; the pectoral 9, the head 22 feet long, — 
and the tail 14 feet wide. He describes the skin as brown. 
* The transverse apophysis of the cervical vertebre much 
expanded, united, forming a ring on the second and sixth 
vertebre. Lumbar vertebre very large and thick. Phy- 
salus. 
1. PHYSALUS ANTIQUORUM. The Razor Back. 
Slate-grey, beneath whitish. Baleen slate-coloured, under 
edge blackish, inner edge pale streaked. 
Razor-back of the Whalers. “ B. Physalus, Linn. B. Gibbar, © 7 
Lacep.”’—Scoresby, Arct. Reg. t. 479. 
2 Great Northern Rorqual, Know; Jardine, Nat. Lib. t. 6, ske- 
leton. "i 
Rorqual de la Méditerranée, Cuv. Oss. Foss. v. 370. t. 26. f. . 
skull. 4 
