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coast of Maryland. Three have come under my notice—one 
taken opposite this city three years ago, one cast ashore in 
Rehoboth Bay, Del., and one in Molzach Bay, Va.” 
B. japonica.—t\ am not aware if any bones or other remains 
of this species are to be found in any European museum, except 
the Bea shone that is imported under the name of “ northwest- 
coast whalebone,’ meaning thereby that of the whales of the 
north-west coast of America. I first brought this whalebone 
under the notice of zoologists in the ‘ Zoology of the Erebus 
and Terror.’ There is no doubt that an extensive whale- 
fishery is carried on by the Japanese, from the works they 
have published on the subject; and it is very probable that 
the whalebone imported as north-west whalebone may be the 
‘same as that obtained by the Japanese; but we have no means 
of determining this point, as I have never been able to procure 
any whalebone imported from Japan. ‘This is probably what 
the whalers call the Kamtschatka or North-west Whale, which 
they say is very different from the whale of Behring’s Straits 
af Baffin’s Bay {Whale-Charts, p. 255). 
B. australis —TVhis species is only known from two skele- 
tons brought from the Cape of Good Hope by M. Delalande, 
now in Paris, and some bones, sent from the Cape, im the 
British Museum; but we have no material to determine what 
is the species of whale that inhabits the vicinity of the Falkland 
Islands and the east coast of South America. 
It is supposed that the whalebone sold in London as the 
*‘South-Sea whalebone” is the baleen of this species; but Iam 
informed that that kind of whalebone is collected by the ships 
that fish in the great southern oceans; and there certainly is 
found a second most distinct species of Right Whale near the 
Cape of Good Hope. A very fine skull of an adult and a 
nearly complete skeleton of a young individual, both obtained 
from the Cape of Good Hope by Dr. Horstock, are contained 
in the Leyden Museum. ‘These are briefly described by 
Schlegel, in his ‘A bhandlungen aus dem Gebiete der Zoologie,’ 
part 1, p. 137, as B. mysticetus australis; and I have named 
them Hunterius Temminckii (Cat. of Seals and Whales in 
British Museum, p. 98). M. Van Beneden entirely overlooks 
this species in his distribution of the Whales in his chart. 
Balena antipodarum is only known to zoologists from a 
drawing by Dieffenbach and a skeleton in the Paris Museum 
which was obtained in New Zealand. Dieffenbach gives some 
account of the migration of this species, but he gives no au- 
thority for extending its geographical distribution to the west 
coast of South America. I have never seen any whalebone 
said to have come from New Zealand, though Dieffenbach says 
