4, BAlJiNOPTERA. / 



4. Balaenoptera rostrata. 

 (Lesser llorqual, or I'ikc Whale.) 

 Balsena rostrata, Fabricitts, Fauna Groenl. p. 40 (1780). 

 a. Stuffed specimen ; young female. (71. 3. 5. 1.) 



AVoymouth. Purchased, 1871. 



The external characters and anatomy of this individual are 

 described by Mr. Perrin, P. Z. S. 1870, p. 805. 



h. Stuffed specimen and baleen-plates ; young. (46. 8. 28. 15.) 



River Tliames, at Deptford. Purchased, 1846. 



The baleen figured in Zool. Ereb. & Terr. pi. i. fig. 3. 



c. Stuffed specimen ; very young. 



Greenland. 



d. Articulated skeleton. (341 a— 4:6. 7. 11. 1.) 



South Greenland. Purchased, 1846. 



e. Eiijht and left tympanic bones. (341 c & d.) 



Old Collection. 



5. Balsenoptera hnttoni. 



(Hutton's Rorqual.) 



Balgenoptera huttoni, Gray, Ann. 8r Mag. N. H. 1874, xiii. pp. 316 

 & 450, pis. xvi., xviii. 



a. Articulated skeleton, with baleen. (74. 4. 13. 2.) 



Otago Head, New Zealand, Oct. 1873. Prof. Hutton,1874[E.]. 

 Type of the species, which is closely allied to, if not identical 

 with, the last. 



Of uncertain Species. 



u. Occipital region of the cranium ; greater part of left maxilla, 



some vertebroe (including second and third cervical ossified 



together) and ribs of a large Balcenoptera allied to, if not 



identical with, B. musculu.',: (14. 46 a.) 



Formosa. R- Swinhoe, Esq. [C.]. 



Types of B. swinlwii. Gray, Ann. & Mag. N. H. (ser. 3) xvi. 



p. 148, P. Z. S. 1865, p. 725 (figures) ; and Swinlioia chinensis, 



Gray, Suppl'. Cat. S. & ^X. p. 57 (1871). 



/3. Left tympanic bone. (79. 8. 21. 8.) 



Cockle Cove, Straits of Magellan, February 1879 (' Alert' Expe- 

 dition). Admiralty [P.]. 

 Collected by Dr. R. ^\. Coppinger. 



y. Mutilated left tympanic bone. (80. 7. 28. 19.) 



8. Right tympanic bone. (76. 2. 16. 17.) 



Port Underwood, Cook Strait, New Zealand. 



Wellington Museum [E.]. 

 Marked " Sulphur-bottom." 



