296 THE WHALEBONE WHALES OF THE WESTERN NOBTH ATLANTIC. 



A series of vertebrae belonging to a small Finback whale were found by me 

 on St. Paul Id., Pribilof Group, Bering Sea, July 30, 1895. They were 27 in 

 number, and included the 7th cervical, 11 dorsals, and 15 lumbars and caudals. It 

 will be observed that the number of dorsals is the same as in B. acuto-rostrata. 



Of this species Van Beneden remarked in 1889 (7, 165) : " In our opinion it is 

 a synonym of JBalcenoptera rostrata" (= JB. acuto-rostrata). 



