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which he thought might be B. musculus of Linnaeus (it is not 

 well copied by Bonnaterre, E. M. t. 3. f. 1, and Schreber, t. 335), 

 which has a large pectoral fin, about f the length of the body ; 

 but the drawing is not so good as the others in the work, and the 

 fin is so awkwardly applied to the body, that perhaps its size 

 may depend on the incompetence of the artist. The dorsal fin, 

 which is only indicated as if doubtful in the original figure, is 

 continued to the tail, but in Bonnaterre's copy it is represented 

 as of equal authority with the other part. 



Fabricius (Faun. Green. 37), five years after, described a Bal&- 

 noptera under the name of B. Boops, Linn., which appears to 

 differ from B. Physalus, for he described the " Pinnae pectorales 

 magnae, obovato-oblongae, margine postica integra, regione cubiti 

 parum fractae, antica autem rotundato-crenatae." And, he con- 

 tinues, " Ante nares in vertice capitis tres ordines convexitatum 

 circularium, huic forsitan peculiare quid," " Pinna dorsalis com- 

 pressa, basi latior, apice acutiuscula, antice sursum repanda, 

 postice fere perpendicularis," and " Corpus pone pinnam dorsa- 

 lem incipit carina acuta in pinnam caudalem usque pergens." 



Rudolphi, and after him Schlegel, refers B. Boops, O. Fabri- 

 cius, to this species ; and Professor Eschricht has no doubt that 

 Balcena Boops of O. Fabricius is intended for this species, as it is 

 called Keporkak by the Greenlanders. If this is the case, Fabri- 

 cius's description of the form and position of the dorsal fin, and 

 the position of the sexual organs, is not correct. 



Brandt, in the list of Altaian animals (Voy. Alt. Orient. 1845, 

 4to), has adopted this opinion, and formed a section for Balceno- 

 ptera longimana, which he calls Boops, merely characterized as 

 " Pectoral elongate." 



Schlegel refers the Rorqualus minor of Knox to this species, 

 probably misled by the inaccurate figures of this species in Jar- 

 dine's Nat. Lib. vi. t. 6. See note on this figure under Balano- 

 ptera rostrata, p. 33. 



Schlegel points out that Rudolphi and M. F. Cuvier, in their 

 description of B. longimana, have confounded the figure ofBaleine 

 du Cap and Rorqual du Cap, of Cuvier's Ossemens Fossiles, 

 together. Faun. Japon. 21, note. 



2. MEGAPTERA AMERICANA. BERMUDA HUMP-BACK. 

 Black ; belly white ; head with round tubercles. 



Whale (Jubartes?), Phil. Trans, i. 11 (1665). 



Bunch or Hump-backed Whale of Dudley, Phil. Trans, xxxiii. 



258. 



Balaena nodosa, Bonnaterre, Cet. 5, from Dudley. 

 Megaptera Americana, Gray, Zool. Ereb. fy Terror, 17. 



