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Kii, which was about 25 feet long ; black, belly whitish, sides 

 white-spotted. They distinguish it from the other whales by the 

 head being smaller, narrower, and more pointed, and the pectoral 

 shorter. It was driven ashore by the Sakanata (grampus). No 

 remains of this species were brought home by M. Siebold. Tem- 

 minck (Fauna Japonica) regards it as identical with the Northern 

 species. It is very desirable that the bones of the Japan and 

 Northern specimens should be accurately compared. It may be 

 observed, that several animals, the Mole and the Badger for 

 example, were formerly said to be like the European species, but 

 recent research has shown they are distinct, and they are now so 

 allowed in the Fauna Japonica. 



This genus also inhabits the Columbian shores. Lewis and 

 Clarke mention the skeleton of a Rorqual found near the Colum- 

 bia river, 105 feet long. Travels, 422. 



Chamisso, in his accounts of the wooden models of whales 

 which were made by the Aleutians, of the species found in their 

 seas, which he deposited in the Berlin Museum, and described 

 and figured in the N. Acta Nat. Cur. xii. 212, figures three kinds 

 of this genus, viz. Abugulich, t. 16. f. 2; Mangidach, t. 16, f. 3 ; 

 and Agamachtschich, t, 18. f. 4, the B. Agamachschik, Pallas, 

 Z. Ross. t. a. 



6. PHYSALUS ANTARCTICUS. 

 Balaenoptera antarctica, Gray, Zool. E. fy T. 51. 



There has lately been imported from New Zealand a quantity 

 of finner-fins or baleen which are all yellowish white ; this doubt- 

 less indicates a different species. 



7. PHYSALUS BRASILIENSIS. 



Balaenoptera Brasiliensis, Gray, Zool. E. fy T. 51; Cat. Ost. Spec. 

 App. 142. 



I have also received from Mr. Smith, specimens of what is called 

 in trade Bahia Finner. This baleen is black, the fibres on the 

 edge of the larger flakes are purplish brown, and of the smaller or 

 terminal ones paler brown. They are 35 inches long by 1 1 inches 

 wide; and the smaller, 10 inches long, and 4 inches wide at the 

 base. This is so different in appearance from the other baleen of 

 this genus, that I propose to call it Balcenoptera Brasiliensis. 



a. Three plates of baleen, " Bahia Finner." Bahia. 



**** "Male organs under the dorsal." 



8. PHYSALUS? AUSTRALIS. SOUTHERN FINNER. 



Balaena Quoyii, Fischer, Syn. 526. 



B. rostrata australis, Desmoulin, Diet. Cl. H. N. ii. 166. 



