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Prof. J. Reinhardt on the Fin- Whale 

 Table (continued). 



Length. 



Third finger — 

 Metacarpal , . 

 First phalanx 

 Second ,, 

 Third „ 

 Fourth „ 

 Fifth „ 

 Sixth „ 



Fourth finger — 

 Metacarpal . . 

 First phalanx 

 Secoid „ 

 Third „ 

 Fourth „ 

 Fifth 

 Sixth „ 



Fifth finger — 

 Metacarpal . . 

 First phalanx 

 Second „ 

 Third 



13 

 11 



H 



f 



5 



^2 



Breadth in 

 the narrow- 

 est place. 



6 



Q3 



3A 



4 



¥ 



.3 



5 

 12 



03 



2 



14 



14- 





From these statements it appears that the hand of the 

 " Tunnolik " may quite as well have belonged to a B. SMaldii 

 as to B. gigas^ for a single phalanx more or less in a finger is 

 of no great importance in the whales ; and if it be further 

 considered that the colour of the " Tunnolik," as described 

 by MoUer in the account sent to Eschricht, as well as the 

 place occupied by the dorsal fin, according to his statement, 

 seem to be much more characteristic of Bcdcenoptera Sihhaldii 

 (as we now know it) than of the Ostend whale, it will certainly 

 be admitted that there are good reasons for referring the 

 " Tunnolik " to the former, and not to the latter species. It 

 must be allowed that the description given by Eschricht of the 

 dorsal fin of his ^' Tunnolik," according to which it should be 

 only 4 inches high, and placed upon a thick knob ('' Fod- 

 stykke," base of the fin, as it is called by Eschricht), is not 

 in accordance with what we know of this fin in B. Sihhaldii] 

 but it agrees no better with that of the Ostend whale, nor, in- 

 deed, with the dorsal fin of any known fin-whale. To me 

 this strange form appears rather to have been a monstrosity ; 

 and it is to be regretted that Eschricht has not accompanied 



