220 DR. J. E. GRAY ON BRITISH CETACEA. [May 24, 
genus Physalus, probably P. antiquorum ; but the details of the ske- 
leton have not been given. The tympanic bones are drawn of a very 
small size (l.c.t.9. f. 27, 3r). 
Lacépétde (Cétac. t. 5, 7) describes and figures a whale stranded 
near the Isle of Marguerite in 1797. It is described as 61 feet long; 
distance from nose to pectoral 143, thence to dorsal 102, and from 
dorsal to caudal 82. But there must be some mistake, as this ac- 
counts for only 34 feet. The pectorals are 5 feet long (that is, only 
one-twelfth of the total length), and all black. Cuvier figured the 
skull of this whale (Oss. Foss. t. 26. f. 5), and founded on it his 
Rorqual de la Méditerranée. M. F. Cuvier (Cétac. 334) regarded 
this as the type of his Balena musculus. 
M. Campango notices a whale cast ashore near St. Cyprien. 
The entire length was 82 feet, of the head 16 feet ; and the pectoral 
was 13 feet long. Vertebre 61, viz. cervical 7, dorsal 14, lumbar 15, 
caudal about 25. It was dark grey, with the throat and sides of the 
pectoral white; the belly blue, white-banded ; the pectoral greyish. 
M. F. Cuvier refers this to the B. musculus, or Mediterranean Ror- 
qual. The skeleton was at Lyons in 1835. 
M. Van Beneden (Ann. Sci. Nat. n. s. vi. 159) says the tympanic 
bones brought from Iceland by M. Quoy belonged to the B. muscu- 
lus of Cuvier. 
** The upper and lower lateral processes of the third, fourth, fifth, 
and sixth cervical vertebre elongate, slender, free at the ends ; 
the upper one bent down; the lateral process of the secontl 
cervical large, truncated. Body of the cervical vertebre oblong, 
ovate, not much broader than high; the upper edge concave ; 
the lower very slightly convex. 
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Atlas of Physalus duguidii. 
Extreme width 21 inches ; height 123 inches. 
