386 



BA.L^NID^. 



Length (along curve of belly) . 

 Greatest girth . . 



Length of head . . . . . 

 ,, of flipper (from head of humerus) 

 Breadth of tail . . . . . 



65 feet 

 30 „ 

 21 „ 



8 „ 

 24 „ 



For a full account of the structure and geographical 

 distribution of this species we may refer our readers to 

 the paper " Om Nordhvalen," by Professors Eschricht 

 and Reinhardt, of which there is a translation in "Recent 

 Memoirs on the Cetacea," published by the Ray Society. 

 A fine adult skeleton — that of a Whale taken near Hol- 

 steinborg in Greenland in the winter of 1861-2, is now 

 mounted in the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons 

 of London. 



