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1. Eubalaena australis. B.M. 



Eubalyena australis, Gray, I. c. p. 91, fig. 6 ; Synops. Whales t\ Dolph. 



p. 1. 

 Balfena australis, Cuv. Oss. Foss. v. t. 25-27. 

 Balfena capensis, Gray, Synops. Whales § Dolph. t. 1. f. 3 (baleen). 



Inhab. Cape of Good Hope. 



2. Eubalaena Sieboldii. 



Eubalsena Sieboldii, Gray, I. c. p. 90; Synops. Whales & Dolph. p. 1, 

 t. 1. f. 2 (baleen). 



Balfena japonica, Gray,Zool. Ereb. fy Ter. p. 15, tab. 1*. fig. 2 (ba- 

 leen). 



Balfena alutiensis, Meyer ; Van Beneden, Bull. Acad. Belgique, xx. 

 1866, no. 14. [Both from the North-west-Coast whalebone of com- 

 merce, which is quite distinct from the South-sea whalebone, 

 brought from the Cape. J 



Balfena japonica, Eschricht, Vid. Selsk. Skrivt. ser. 5. ix. p. 1, Kjobenh. 

 1869, pi. 1 (skull of foetus), pi. 2 (head) ; Gray, Ann. # Mag. Nat. 

 Hist. 1870, vi. p. 202. 



Inhab. Kamtschatka. Skeleton of foetus 5| feet long, in Mus. 

 Copenhagen. 



See also the following doubtful species : — 



1. Balfena japonica, Lace'pede, Mem: Mus. iv. p. 473. 

 Balfena lunulata, Lacep. Mem. Mus. iv. p. 475. 



These two are from Chinese, or, rather, Japanese drawings. 



2. Balfena australis, Temminck, Fauna Japonica, Taf. 28 & 29 (not Des- 



motdins). 

 Balcena Sieboldii, Gray, Ann. fy Mag. N. H. 1864, xiv. p. 349. 



From a model made by the Japanese in porcelain clay. 



3. Eubalaena? cisarctica. 



Eubalfena ? cisarctica, Cope. 



Balfena cisarctica, Cope, Proc. Acad. Nat. So. Philad. 1865, p. 1 ; Gray 

 Ann. $ Mag. N. H. 1868, i. pp. 244 & 247, 1870, vi. p. 200. 



Balfena biscayensis, Van Beneden, Osteogr. Cet. t. 7. figs. 4, 5, 6 (ear- 

 bones only). 



Inhab. Atlantic. 



" There is a skeleton of the Balcena cisarctica in the Museum of 

 the Academy of an individual of 37 feet, and a ramus mandibuli 

 16 feet in length, indicating a total of 68 feet, adult size. A sca- 

 pula in the Museum, Rutger's College, New Brunswick, N. J., mea- 

 sures 36 inches in height, and 48 5 inches in width, indicating an 

 adult of 57 feet in length. A young individual of 45 feet, line- 

 measurement, awaits mounting in the Museum Compar. Zoology, 

 Cambridge, Mass. Of this individual I will shortly give a detailed 

 description in an essay on the species. Like the other specimens, 



