6 BALJ5\ID^. 



a. Articulated skeleton ; adult male. (793 e — 82. 6. 14. 1.) 



Moray Firth, Scotland. Purchased, 1882. 



It measures, in a straight line, 08 feet in length. The tail- 

 flukes and dorsal fin are preserved, and attached to the pelvic 

 bones are the very rudimentary nodular femurs. 



h. Articulated skeleton; adult. (793 c— 48. 10. 12. 20.) 



Plymouth, 1831. Purchased, 1848. 



Less perfect than the last. This skeleton "svas formerly ex- 

 hibited in various parts of the country, moving from town to 

 town in travelling vans. 



c. Articulated skeleton ; young. (790 c.) 



This specimen is named in the ' Catalogue of the Eones of 2^Iam- 

 malia' (1862), p. 150, Phiisalus (Korrfialus) hoops. Afterwards 

 it became type of the genus and s}>ecies, Benedenia Icnoxii, Gray, 

 P. Z. 8. 1864, p. 212 ; Cat. S. & W. 1866, p. 135 (skull and some 

 cervical vertebrae figured). 



From an animal taken on the coast of ^'ales, and towed into 

 Liverpool in 1846. Purchased. 



d. Cranium ; adult. 



e. Cervical and some dorsal vertebrae, sternum, hyoid, and right 



and left tympanies. (1466 «— 56. 11. 7. 2.) 



Orkney Islands. From Mr. Heddle, 1856. 



From the specimen described by Heddle, P. Z. S. 1856, p. 187, 

 as Physalus duguidii; see also Cat. S. & W. (1866) p. 158. 



/. Right tympanic, periotic, and complete mastoid apophysis, with 

 ossicula auditus. 



2. Balaenoptera sibbaldii. 



(Sibbald's Rorqual.) 



Physalus (Rorqualus) sibbaldii, Grai/, P. Z. S. 1847, p. 92. 



a. Articulated skeleton ; young. (1465 a — 65. 8. 23. 1.) 



Lidth-de-Jeude Collection. Purchased, 1867. 

 Type of Physalus latirostris, Flower (P. Z. S. 1865, p. 28). 

 Cuviernis latirostris, Gray, Cat. S. & W. p. 165. 

 Cuvierius sibbaldii, Gray, ibid. p. 380. 



3. Balaenoptera borealis. 



(Rudolphi's Rorqual.) 



Balsenoptera borealis, Less. Hid. Nat. Cetaces, p. .342 (1828). 

 B. laticeps, Gray, Zool. Ereb. §• Terr. p. 20 (1846). 



a. Cast of right tympanic bone. (84. 4. 2Q. 1.) 



Royal College of Surgeons [E.]. 

 From the specimen caught in the River Crouch, Essex (see 

 P. Z. S. 1883, p. 513). 



