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Balcena cisarctica Cope, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1865, p. 

 168.— Abbott, Cook's Geol. oi N. J., 1868, p. 759.— Holder, 

 Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., I., p. 106. — ^Anon., Forest and 

 Stream^ 1874, p. 267. 



Balccna phy sails Ord, Guthrie's Geography, 181 5, p. 292. 



Ba^lcena glacialis Rhoads, Mam. Pa. and N. J., 1903, p. 10. 



Genus Megaptera Gray. 



Hump-Backed Whales. 



Megaptera nodosa (Bonnaterre). 



New England Hump-Backed Whale. 

 Plate; 3. 



Similar to the Fin-backed Whales, but with the back strongly 

 convex and the flippers very long and scalloped on the edges. 

 Sooty black above; beneath spotted, and streaked with white on 

 throat, chest and belly ; length, 46 feet. 



While there is no positive record of this species stranding or 

 being caught on the coast of New Jersey, it has been taken as 

 far south as Virginia and from Massachusetts to Newfound- 

 land, so that it may occur on our seaboard at any time. 



Genus Bae^nopTERA Lacepede. 



Fin-Backed Whales. 



Balaenoptera physalus (Linnseus). 



Common Fin-Backed Whale; Rorqual. 



Plate 4, Fig. i. 



Length, 60 feet. Dark slate, nearly black above, gray on the 

 sides and white below. Head assymetrically colored, left side of 

 upper jaw and upper part of lower jaw dark, right side of lower 



