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BAL^NID^. 



it presents a strong acromion. The phalanges of the manus exhi- 

 bited an important difference from those of B. australis. In it they 

 number respectively 2, 5, 6, 3, S, while Cuvier gives (Oss. Foss. 

 227. 23) 2, 5, 6, 5, 4." 



4. HUNTERIUS. 



Hunterius, Gray, I. e. pp. 78, 98 ; Synops. WJiales 8f Dolph. p. 1 ; 

 Lilljehorg, N. Acta Upsal. vi. 1867. 



First rib broad, with a double head at the vertebral end. Tym- 

 panic bones square ; aperture nearly as long as the bone. Vertebrae 

 57 or 58 ; the five first cervical united. Five phalanges in the 

 fourth or ring finger, and four to the second, third, and fifth fingers. 

 The first rib bifid and articulated to the first two dorsals, or the last 

 cervical and the first dorsal ; the second rib very thick at the free 

 end. The nasal bones very large. 



1. Hunterius Temminckii. 



Hunterius Temminckii, Gray^ I. c. p. 98, fig. 8 ; Synops. Whales Sf 



Dolph. p. 1 ; Ann. ^ Mag. N. H. 1870, p. 191. 

 Balaena australis, Temm. F. Japon. t. 28, 29, 

 Balsena australis, var.. Van Ben. Osteogr. Get. p. 35. 



Inhab. Cape of Good Hope. 



M. van Beneden regards the character on which this genus is 

 established as merely a variation of Balcena australis (Osteog. Get. 

 p. 35). 



The skeleton was sent from the Cape of Good Hope by Dr. Hor- 

 stock. It is described by Schlegel, Abhand. Gebiete der Zool. 1841, 

 p. 37 (Flower, P. Z. S. 1864). 



2. Hunterius biscayensis. 



Hunterius biscayensis. Gray, Ann. <^ Mag. Nat. Hist. 1868, i. p. 244 j 



Synops. Whales ^' Dolph. p. 2. 

 Balaena biscayensis, Eschricht, Compt. Rendm, 1860, Act. Soc. Linn. 



Bordeaux, xiii. ; Gray, Ann. ^ Mag. N. H. 1870, p. 200 (not Van 



Beneden). 

 Bal^na eubalsena, Floioer, P. Z. 8. 1864, p. 391. 



Inhab. St. Sebastian. Skeleton of very young animal in Mus. 

 Copenhagen, from the Museum of Pampeluna. 



Mr. Flower informs me that this skeleton belongs to the genus 

 Hunterius, which has brittle whalebone, with a large coarse fringe 

 (which easily splits into strips), and a bifid first rib. 



3. Hunterius Swedenborgii. 



Hunterius Swedenborgii, Lilljehorg, N. Act. A. Sci. Upsal. vi. 1867, 

 p. 35, t. 9, 10, 11 (skeleton) j Gray, Synops. Whales 8f Dolph. p. 1. 



Inhab. North Sea ; Sweden (subfossil). 



