60 MEGAPTEBID^. 



Family 3. MEGAPTERID^. HumphacTced Whales. 



Megapterina, Gray, I. c. p. 113. 



Meg-apteridse, Gray, Synops. Whales ^ Dolph. p. 2. 



Dorsal fin low, broad ; pectoral fin very long, with four very long 

 fingers of many phalanges. Yertebrae 50 or 60 ; cervical vertebrae 

 often anchylosed. Lateral process of the axis tardily ossified. Neu- 

 ral canal large, high, triangular. Eibs 14 or 15. 



1. MEGAPTERA. 



Megaptera, Gray, I. c. pp. 11.3, 117 ; Synojis. Whales 8f Dolph. p. 2; 

 Lilljehorg, N. Acta Upsal. 1867, vi. 



Bladebone without acromion or coracoid process. Body of cer- 

 I vical vertebrae subcircular. 



1. Megaptera longimana. B.M. 



Megaptera longimana, Gray, I. c. pp. 119 (fig.), 373 ; Synops. Whales 



df Dolph. p. 2. 

 Megaptera hoops. Gray, Synops. Whales 8f Dolph. tab. 30 (baleen and 



jaws with rudimentary teeth), t. 33. f. 12 (vertebra). 



Inhab. North Sea. 



2. Megaptera NovsB-Zelandise. B.M. 



Megaptera Novae-Zelandiae, Gray, I. c. p. 128, fig. 20 ; Synops. Whales 

 Sf Dolph. p. 2. 



Inhab. New Zealand. Ear-bones in Brit. Mus. 



3. Megaptera ? Burmeisteri. 



Megaptera ? Burmeisteri, Gray, Cat. Seals 8f Wliales, p. 129. 

 Megaptera Lalandii (part.). Van Beneden, Osteogr. Get. 



Inhab, Buenos Ayres. Skeleton, Mus. Buenos Ayres. 



4. Megaptera americana. 



Megaptera americana, Gray, Cat. Seals ^ JVhales, p. 129. 



Inhab. Bermuda. 



" The norivega is a Humpback which has the belly white and 

 smooth (?), back very dark bluish, length 50 to 55 feet. This whale 

 gives more oil than the mystica.^^ — Hartt, Geology Sf Physical Geo- 

 graphy of Brazil, p. 182. 



" The whalebone is short, and sells well. The beach on which the 

 whales are cut up is strewed during the- season with bones. There 

 must be the bones of 500 whales on the spot. The fishery is carried 

 on at Bahia on a much larger scale than at Caravellas." — L. c. p. 185. 



5. Megaptera kuzira. 

 Megaptera kuzira, Gray, Cat. Seals 8f Whales, p. 130. 

 Inhab. Japan. Skull, Mus. Leyden. 



