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ie CETACEA. 39 
‘Balzena antiquorum, Fischer, Syn. 525. 
Balznoptera antiquorum, Gray, Zool. Ereb. & Terror, 50. 
Physalus antiquorum, Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1847, 90. 
Balenoptera musculus, F. Cuv. Cetac. 335; Eschricht’s MSS. 
(not Linn.) 
2 Balein de Sainte Cyprien, Companyo, Mem. 4to, 1830; Careas- 
_ sonne and Farines, Mem.; F. Cuw. l. c. 337. 
? Balznoptera Boops, Yarrell, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1840. 
Inhab. North Sea. Berwick, 1831, Dr. King. Hamburgh, Ru- 
dolphi. Coast of Hampshire, 1842. Skeleton at Black-gang 
Chine. Greenland, Eschricht. St. Cyprian, nm Mus. Lyons, 
1838. 
a. Two plates of baleen. Needles, coast of Hampshire, from 
the skeleton at Black-gang Chine. 
6. Several plates of baleen united together. Greenland, from 
Mr. Miiller’s collection. 
ce. Skeleton, 744 feet long. Plymouth. 
_ The transverse apophyses are as broad as the body of the ver- 
tebra, and the latter is oblong, half as broad again as high. 
The lateral processes of the cervical vertebrz are much longer 
‘than the width of the body of the vertebree ; the lateral process 
of the second cervical has a small, nearly central perforation, and 
this perforation gradually becomes larger on each succeeding 
vertebra, until it nearly occupies the whole disk of the lateral 
process in the sixth; the seventh bemg only formed with a nar- 
‘row elongated process from the upper edge, the lower process . 
being reduced into the form of a small tubercle. 
_ Vertebre 54: viz. 7 cervical, 13 dorsal, 17 lumbar and 17 cau- 
‘dal. The ribs are simple. 
_ The lumbar vertebre are thick and large ; both these charac- 
ters must render this Finner much more powerful and active in 
the water than any of its allies. The lower jaw is 17 feet long; 
the blade-bone 32 inches by 51. The upper arm-bone 20 inches 
long by 103 wide; the lower arm-bone 31 inches long. The chest- 
bone is 28 inches wide and 18 inches long. . 
__ The lumbar vertebre are 11 imches long and 14 inches wide : 
the first rib 59 inches long and 103 mches wide at the sternal 
end. 
The specimen was found floating on the sea in a decomposed 
state, on the 2nd of October 1831, in Plymouth Sound, and is 
said to have been 102 feet long and 75 feet im circumference ; 
but most likely the abdominal cavity was distended by the inter- 
nal decomposition. 
_ It formerly travelled the country, curiously mounted in three 
caravans, the first containmg the head, the second the thorax, 
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