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and the third the middle of the tail; when placed one after th 
other so as to exhibit the parts of the skeleton in their prope 
situation, the ends of the caravans were removed, and the cer- 
vical vertebrae, the lumbar vertebrae, and the caudal vertebi x 
were suspended in their proper situation between or beyond the 
caravans. The proprietor had placed a blade of Greenland whale- 
bone (Balena mysticetus) on one side and several of South Sez 
whalebone (Balena australis) on the other side of the upper jaw, 
in the place of the true baleen of Balenoptera. 
There is a nearly perfect skeleton of this species (which I have: 
lately visited in company with Professor Eschricht) exhibited at 
Black-gang Chine, the Isle of Wight, which was caught im April 
1842, near the Needles. It was, when first found, dark grey 
above and whitish beneath. . 
The baleen is slate-coloured with white streaks on the neat 
or inner side; nearly black and with a few darker streaks near 
the outer or straight side. It was 75 feet long. The skull is 16 
feet 7 inches long, 5 feet wide at the notch, and the edge of the 
beak from the notch is 12 feet long. The lower jaw 16 feet 9 
inches ; the upper arm-bone 2 feet, and the larger fore-arm-bone 
is 33 inches long. In this skeleton, the scapula and the chest 
bones are wrongly placed, and the bones of the carpus and finger ; 
and the lower processes of the vertebrae, as well as some of the 
smaller parts of the head, are deficient. There are 7 cervical 
vertebre ; the first, very broad, with a very large lateral process, 
on each side pierced with a hole near the body; the second is 
higher than it ; and the three following have a ring-like or pierced 
lateral process, which Professor Eschricht regards as one of the 
best characters of the species. There are 14 thoracic vertebree. 
The ribs are long; the first simple, shortish and broadish, the” 
rest almost of equal size and length, the last beg very nearly 
as long as the others. The lumbar vertebre are 15, with con- 
siderably thicker bodies than the others. Caudal vertebre 18,” 
exclusive of those contamed in the fin of the tail, which is pre- 
served entire. il 
Professor Eschricht has two heads of this species at Copen-— 
hagen from Greenland. There is a head and some vertebrz at 
Paris, and some vertebre at Berlin, and the St. Cyprian specimen 
which was at Lyons in 1835. * 
Dr. Knox, under the name of Balena maximus borealis, Knox. 4 
Cat. Prep. Whales, p.5, and Edin. N. Phil. Journ. 1833, 181, no=" 
tices a specimen of a whale found off North Berwick which was 
80 feet long, the head 23 feet, and the tail 20 feet wide from tip 
to tip. He describes it as having 13 dorsal and 43 lumbar, sacral 
and caudal vertebrae (Edin. N. Phil. Journ. 1834, 198). q 
The skeleton of this whale is now in the Zoological Gardens, 
