35^ ■ CETACEA. 



integumentary system furnishes the baleen, which is evidently a modified 

 form of hair and cuticle." 



We need not do more than mention the other species of the o-enus as 

 they do not differ in any important particular from the Greenland 

 Whale, which we have just described. 



The Western Australian Right Whale, Balcena viarginatu, is 

 remarkable for the length and slenderness of its whalebone, and is un- 

 doubtedly a very distinct species. 



The Scrag Whale, Balmna gibbosa, we have already mentioned. 

 Its describer Dudley writes in the year 1725, " Nearly' akin to the Fin- 

 back, but instead of a fin upon its back, the ridge of the after-part of its 

 back is scragged with half-a-dozen knobs or knuckles. He is nearest the 

 Right Whale {B. viysticctus) in figure and quantity of oil. His bone 

 (whalebone) is white, but will not split." Mr. Brown says, " What 

 whale this is, I cannot imagine." 



The Biscay Whale, BaLena Biscayensis, is the name given bv Dr. 

 Eschricht to a second species of Right Whale found in the Greenland 

 seas, whicli is much smaller and more active than the Balczna viysticctus, 

 and which belongs to the temperate North Atlantic. 



GENUS EUBALvENA. 



The C.\PE Whale, Eubalcena Australis, is the onlj^ species that can 

 be certainly referred to this genus ; a female measuring sixty-eight feet in 

 length has been caught, and we may remark that in the Greenland Right 

 Whale, and probablv in all other BalcenidcE, the female is the larger. 

 The Japanese Whale (£. Sicbaldii of Gray), according to that naturalist, 

 " is onh- described and figured from a model made in porcelain clav bv a 

 Japanese under the inspection of a Japanese whaler and of Dr. Siebold ; 

 but no remains of the animal were brought to Europe ; so that we do not 

 know whether it is a Eubalana or a Hiintcrins, or if it may not be an 

 entirely new form." Mr. Bennett observes that " the Right Whale, so 

 abundant and so little molested in the northernmost waters of the Pacific, 

 especially off" the north-west coast of America, is probably identical with 

 the Greenland species ; " but Dr. Gray remarks that its baleen, which is 

 very inferior in qualitv to that of B. mvstnrtiis, " shows that it is more 

 allied to the Cape species, but apparently distinct from it." 



