56 Dr. J. E. Gray on the Bladehones of 



b. Spots on the hody larger, squarish, and pale in the centre. 



Fell's nejyalensis^ Cat. Carniv. p. 27. no. 21. 



Hah. India. B.M. 



Perhaps a domesticated or semiwild hybrid between the 

 Indian wild species and the common cat. 



III. Tail tapering at the end, nearhj as long as the hody, with distinct 

 hlaclc rings and a black tip. 



Felis jxirdinoides, Cat. Carniv. p. 27. no. 23. B.M. 



If this species was brought from India by Capt. Innes, as it 

 was stated, and the habitat which we received with the speci- 

 men from the Zoological Society correct, it belongs to this 

 section ; but it has much more the appearance of a South- 

 American cat ; indeed it has a good deal of resemblance to 

 Felis mitis. At any rate, it is distinct from any other Indian 

 cat ; and we must await the determination of its proper geo- 

 graphical distribution until we have received other specimens 

 with their proper habitat. Mr. Elliot has stated that he 

 believes it to be a specimen of Felis Geofro2/i from the Pampas. 

 I have given my opinion on this crude and extraordinary idea 

 in a previous paper in this number of the 'Annals' (p. 49), 

 with a description of the peculiarities of this species. 



XI. — On the Bladehones of Balrena Hectori and Megaptera 

 novffi-zelandite. By Dr. J. E. Gray, F.R.S. &c. 



I HAVE received from Dr. Hector the drawings, one twelfth of 

 the natural size, of the scapula? of two whales, which he col- 

 lected at Tory Channel, New Zealand. 



The smaller one (see figure, p. 57) is about two feet high and 

 an inch or two wider at the upper edge. The whalers said it 

 was the scapula of a humpback ; but this must be a mistake ; for 

 it certainly has nothing to do with the scapula of Megaptei-a 

 novai-zelandke (the New-Zealand humpback). The scapulae 

 of the humpback or fin-whales are always much broader than 

 high ; this is the scapula of a true Balcena^ and has a distinct 

 acromion process, which is bent towards the condyle, as in the 

 scapula of Macleayius australiensis figured by me from a spe- 

 cimen in the British Museum sent by Dr. Haast from New 

 Zealand (P. Z. S. 1873, p. 140). I should think it was pro- 

 bably a specimen of this species ; but the upper margin is not 

 quite so broad and expanded, and the figure appears to show 



