42 CETACEA. 
sixth and seventh cervical vertebre have only two rather s 
processes on each side, the upper process bemg the most a ler 
compressed, and bent down, and the lower ones conical, stror ger, 
compressed. The processes of the third vertebra are the thinnes 
and they gradually increase im thickness and strength to th 
seventh or last. | 
The specimen here described was mentioned in the papers 0 
the day as a Spermaceti Whale! a 
3. PHysaLus (RoravauLus) SIBBALDII. 
The transverse apophyses of the second cervical vertebra rathe 
elongated, united, leaving only a small subcentral hole; of the 
other cervical vertebre slender, shorter, and far apart; ne a 
straight, directed out laterally. . 
Physalus Rorqualus Sibbaldu, Gray, Proc. Zool. we 1847, 92, 
Inhab. North Sea. Coast of Yorkshire. 
In the Museum of the Hull Literary and Philosophical Social 
there is a very perfect skeleton of this species taken in the Humber 
which is 50 feet long. It has 64 vertebra, as follows : cervical, 
thoracic, 16; lumbar and caudal, 41; and the arms or paddles a 
6 feet 9 inches long. The ribs 16 pair, all simple. The baleen en 
is black. 4 
This specimen is said to have been eight years old, but 0 01 
what authority I cannot learn. 
I have to thank my friend Mr. Pearsall, the curator of t 
above museum, for his kindness in sending me detailed drawings os 
ot the natural size, of the cervical vertebre of this interes ag 
species. a 
*** Cervical vertebre unkatiiae ‘ 
4. PHyYSALUS? FASCIATUS. The PERUVIAN FINNER. 
*« Lower jaw scarcely longer than the upper; head and back 
ash-brown ; belly whitish ; ,tips of fins and a streak from the ey 
to the middle of the body white.”— Tschudi. 
Balenoptera, n.s., Tschudi, Mammal. Consp. Peruana, 13. 4 
Baleenoptera Tschudi, Reich. Cetac. 33 ; Wiegm. Arch. 1844, 258 
Inhab. Coast of Peru. D 
5. Puysautus? Iwast. The JAPAN FINNER. 
Black ; side white-spotted ; belly white. 
Baleenoptera arctica, Schlegel, Faun. Japon. 26. ‘ 
Inhab. Japan. . 
A species of this genus is known in Japan under the name ¢ 
Iwasi Kuzira. It is very rare. One was cast ashore in 1760 f 0 
