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feiiLucli had brought such an accurate figure ; and I was con- 

 firmed in thinking that it was the same as the skeleton from 

 New Zeahiud which was in the Paris Museum, by the obser- 

 vations of Mihie-Edwards, Professor Lilljeborg, and Van 

 Beneden, who, though the skeleton had lost its ear-bones, 

 seemed to feel no doubt that it was the skeleton of the whale 

 the ear-bones of which I figured. I have never seen the 

 skeleton myself ; for when I was in Paris they considered the 

 skeleton a duplicate of the one they had set up, and not 

 worth my seeing. 



I think it better to retain the name of Neobakena for tliis 

 genus. The genus Cajjerea, though first established on the 

 ear-bone of this genus, has had its character enlarged by tlie 

 study of the Paris skeleton ; and it would produce less change 

 of name to retain Caperea for the whale the skeleton of which 

 is at Paris ; otherwise we should have to form a new name for 

 that genus ; but doubtless there will be some one who, wishing 

 to append his name to a new-named old genus, will give it 

 another appellation. 



As the specimen in the Paris Museum has lost its ear-bones, 

 M. van Beneden has added to the figure of that skeleton the 

 figure of some ear-bones, said to have come from New Zealand, 

 in the Belgian Museum. Now, as there are at least two Black or 

 Right Whales with very different shoulder-blades tliat inhabit 

 the seas of New Zealand, it is not possible to say to which of 

 these species the specimens figured by M. van Beneden belong. 



2. Euhalcena australis. 



There are at least two Black Whales in New Zealand ; and 

 as yet I have no evidence that the Euhalcena australis has been 

 taken in New-Zealand seas. It is doubtful to which of tlie 

 two Right Whales the animal figured by Dr. Dieffenbach real'y 

 belongs. I applied to this figure the names oi Balcena antipt- 

 darum (DiefFenb. New Zeal. 1. 1) and Balcena antarctica (Voy. 

 Erebus and Terror, t. 1); but as this has been applied to the 

 skeleton of the New-Zealand whale in the Paris Museum by 

 M. Milne-Edwai-ds, Prof. Lilljeborg, myself, and M. van 

 Beneden in his 'Osteographie des C^taces,' I believe it will be 

 better to retain it for that species. The form of the bladebone, 

 which is different from that of all the other Right Whales 

 known, is not likely to be connected with a change in the ex- 

 ternal form of the animal. 



The synonyms will run thus : — 



BalfPim ayitipodnriim, Gray, Dieffenb. New Zeal. tab. 1 (animal). 

 Balfpna antarctica, Gray, Zool. Erebus & Terror, Get. p. 16, tab. 1 (ani- 

 mal, not Lesson nor Owen). 



