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the inner side of the " fin," paler in longitudinal stripes. The 

 fibres on the edge, like the internal fibres of which it is a conti- 

 nuation, are very fine and black. The 4 * fins " or pieces of ba- 

 leen are flat, or as the merchant calls them "kindly," so that 

 they produce straight pieces fit for the better kind of parasols 

 and umbrellas, &c., when cut into strips. 



Balaena mysticetus, Linn. S. N. i. 105 ; Gmelin, S. N. i. 223 ; 



Mutter, Zool. Dan. 6; Erxl. Syst. 601 ; 0. Fab. 32; Schreb. 



Saugth. t. 322 ; Cuv. R. A. i. 285, ed. 2. i. 296 ; 06-5. Foss. v. 



361. t. 25. f. 9, 11. t. 26. f. 25 ; Lesson, (Euv. Buffon, i. 294. 



1. 11 ; Desm. Mam. 527, 798; Desm. Diet. Class. H. N. ii. 160; 



Fischer, Syn. 521 ; Gray, Zool. Erebus and Terror, 15, 47. 



t. 1. f. 4, baleen; Cat. Mam. EM. 104. 

 Balcena mysticetus, Lesson, N. Reg. Anim. 202. 

 The Right, or Whalebone Whale, Dudley, Phil. Trans, xxxiii. 



256 ; Scoresby, Arctic Regions, i. 448. t. 12. f. 1. 

 B. Grcenlandica, Linn. Mus. Ad. Frid. i. 51. 

 B. vulgaris, Brisson, Reg. Anim. 347. 

 Bal. vulgi, Aldrov. Pise. 688. 

 Bal. vulgo dicta, Rondel. P. 475. fig. 

 Bal. Rondeletii, Willoughb. Pise. 35. 

 B. Physalus, Pallas, Zoogr. i. 289, not Syn. 

 De Balaenis hujusmodi Bipennibus, Sibbald, Phal. 27. 

 B. Mysticetus borealis, Knox, Cat. Prep. Whale, 21. 

 Bala3na mysticetus borealis, Knox, Cat. Anat. Prep. Whale, 21. 

 Var. 1. Balsena glacialis occidentalis, Klein, Misc. Pise. ii. 12; 



Muller, Z. Dan. Prod. 7; Bechst. Naturg. Deutsch. 1238; 



Virey in Nov. Diet. Sci. iii. 183; Desm. Mamm. 527. 

 B. Islandica, Brisson, Reg. Anim. 350. 

 B. Mysticetus )3. Islandica, Gmelin, S. N. i. 223 ; Fischer, Syn. 



Mam. 522. 



B. Nord Caper, Bonnat. Get. 3; Lacep. Get. 103. t. 2. t. 3; Ge- 

 rard, Diet. Sci. Nat. iii. 438. 

 Nord Kapper, Egede, Gro2nl. 55. 

 Nordcaper, Anders. Isl. 219; Crantz, Gr&nl. 145. 

 Var. 2. Rock-nosed Whale, Guerin in Jameson's N. Edinb. Phil. 



Journ. 1845, 267. 

 Inhab. North Sea. 



a. Skull and lower jaw ; North Sea. 

 The specimen figured in Cuv. Oss. v. t. 25. fig. 9-11. 

 6, c. Two plates of whalebone. 



Greenland. Presented by Messrs. Smith and Simmonds. 

 The specimens figured in the ' Voyage of the Erebus and Ter- 

 ror,' p. 47. tab. 1. fig. 11. 



d. One plate of whalebone ; Greenland. 



