3. EUBAL^NA. 43 



Iv Eubalaena australis. B.M. 



Eubalaena australis, Gray, I. c. p. 91, fig. 6 ; Synops. Whales 8f Dolph. 



Balsena australis, Cuv. Oss. Foss. v. t. 25-27. 



Balaena capensis, Gray, Synops. Whales 8^ Bolph. t. 1. f. 3 (baleen). 



Tnhab. Cape of Good Hope. 



2. Eubalaena Sieboldii. 



Eubalaena Sieboldii, Gray, I. c. p. 96; Synops. Whales Sf Doh)h. p. 1, 

 t. 1. f. 2 (baleen). 



Balsena japonica, Gray,Zool. Ereb. Sf Ter. p. 15, tab. 1*. fig. 2 (ba- 

 leen). 



Balaena alutiensis, i^fe?/er; Van Beneden, Bull. Acad. JBelytqtie, xx. 

 1866, no. 14. [Both from the North-west-Coast whalebone of com- 

 merce, which is quite distinct from the South-sea whalebone, 

 brought from the Cape. J 



Balaena japonica, Eschricht, Vid. Selsk. Skrivt. ser. 5. ix. p. 1, Kjobenh. 

 1869, pi. 1 (skull of foetus), pi. 2 (head) ; Gray, Ann. 8f Mag. Nat. 

 Hist. 1870, vi. p. 202. 



Inhab. Kamtschatka. Skeleton of foetus 5| feet long, in Mus. 

 Copenhagen. 



See also the following doubtful species : — 



1. Balaena japonica, Lac4pMe, Mem. Mus. iv. p. 473. 

 Balaena lunulata, Lacep. Mem. Mus. iv. p. 475. 



These two are from Chinese, or, rather, Japanese drawings. 



2. Balaena australis, Temminck, Fauna Japonica, Taf. 28 & 29 (not Des- 



moulins). 

 Balaena Sieboldii, Gray, Ann. ^ Mag. N. H. 1864, xiv. p. 349. 



Erom a model made by the Japanese in porcelain clay. 



3. Eubalsena? cisarctica. 



Eubalaena ? cisarctica, Cope. 



Balaena cisarctica, C'o^^e, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sc. Philad. 1865, p. 1 ; Gray 

 Ann. 8f Mag. N H. 1868, i. pp. 244 & 247, 1870, vi. p. 200. 



Balaena biscayensis, Van Beneden, Osteogr. Cet. t. 7. figs. 4, 5, 6 (ear- 

 bones only). 



Inhab. Atlantic. 



" There is a skeleton of the Balcena cisarctica in the Museum of 

 the Academy of an individual of 37 feet, and a ramus mandibuli 

 16 feet in length, indicating a total of 68 feet, adult size. A sca- 

 pula in the Museum, Kutger's College, New Brunswick, N. J., mea- 

 sures 36 inches in height, and 48 5 inches in width, indicating an 

 adult of 57 feet in length. A young individual of 45 feet, line- 

 measurement, awaits mounting in the Museum Compar. Zoology, 

 Cambridge, Mass. Of this individual I will shortly give a detailed 

 description in an essay on the species. Like the other specimens, 



