18 CETACEA. 



about ^ to ^ of the thickness much more in proportion than they 

 do on the Greenland fins, and the enamel and fibre are coarser in 

 texture and much more brittle. 



The fins or blades of this whalebone are generally flexuous, or 

 " not kindly/' so that when cut into strips, they have the defect of 

 being variously bent, and tapering towards the end, which, with 

 their brittleness, greatly reduces their value. 



Mr. Bennett observes that " The Right Whale, so abundant, 

 and so little molested in the northernmost waters of the Pacific, 

 or off the north-west coast of America, is probably identical with 

 the Greenland species." Whaling Voyage, ii. 229. The whale- 

 bone or baleen shows it is more allied to the Cape species, but 

 apparently distinct from it. 



5. BAL^ENA ANTARCTICA. The NEW ZEALAND WHALE. 



Balaena antipodarum, Gray, Dieffenbach, N. Zealand, t. 1. 



Right Whale, Polach, N. Zealand, ii. 401. 



Balaena antarctica, Gray, Zool. Erebus and Terror, Cete, 16. t. 1, 



not Lesson. 

 Inhab. New Zealand, Jackson Bay. 



Described from a very accurate drawing of a specimen taken in 

 Jackson Bay ; it is very like Temminck's figure of J3. australis, 

 but there is a roundish prominence on the front of the under jaw 

 similar to the one on the nose ; the latter is only figured in that 

 species ; the pectoral fin, as in that species, is about f from the 

 chin. 



M. Milne-Edwards informs me that a skeleton of this whale 

 has been lately received by the Paris Museum. 



Lesson, (Euv. Bvffon, i. 391 (Tab. Reg. Anim. 202); Wagler, 

 N. S. Aus. 33, give the name of " B. antarctica" to the "Right 

 or Black Whale of the whalers of the Antarctic seas." 



Ghamisso figures a species of Whalebone Whale as Balcena 

 Kuliomoch, found in the Aleutian seas, from a wooden model made 

 by the Aleutians : see N. Act. Nat. Cur. t. 17. f. 1. It is noticed 

 as B. Culammak by Pallas, Zool. Ross. Asiat. i. 288. 



** BacJc knobbed. ? Cyphonotus, Rafin. 



6. BALAENA GIBBOSA. The SCRAG WHALE. 



" A Scrag Whale. Is near akin to the Fin-back, but instead 

 of a fin upon its back, the ridge of the after-part of its back is 

 scragged with half-a-dozen knobs or knuckles. He is nearest the 

 Right Whale (B. mysticetus) in figure and quantity of oil. His 

 bone (whalebone) is white, but wont split." Dudley. 



"A Scrag Whale/' Dudley (Phil. Trans, xxxiii. 259); and 

 Whalers. 



