606 PROF. W. H. FLOWER ON FOUR SPECIMENS [Dec. 9, 
tween the blow-holes and the end of the snout; in front of this the 
surface was quite flat. The snout was pointed, flat above and below, 
and rounded at the extreme end, which projected 64 inches beyond 
the anterior limits of the baleen. On this part, instead of the rayed 
indentation observed in the Pevensey Whale, there was a roundish 
depression about the size of a halfpenny piece on each side of the 
middle line (see Plate XLVII. fig. 2). 
The blow-holes were situated in a deep hollow (wide behind and 
narrow in front) behind the before-mentioned median ridge, rather 
anterior to the eye, their front end being 10 feet 4 inches from the 
tip of the muzzle. Between them was a longitudinal median de- 
pression ; each aperture was 13 inches long, curved, with the con- 
cavity outwards ; and they were 2 inches apart in front, and 10 inches 
behind. 
The lower jaw terminated anteriorly in a sharp median ridge, like 
the prow of a fast-going vessel. On each side of this ridge, about 
linch from the middle line above and rather nearer below, was a 
vertical row of short white bristles, about a dozen on each side, placed 
rather irregularly, but averaging ? of an inch between each. Each 
bristle was 4 inch in length, but not more than } inch projected 
above the surface. They were set in distinct fosse, which were very 
evident, although most of the bristles had fallen out. I could de- 
tect no traces of hairs on any part of the surface of the upper lip. 
The baleen of the two sides was continuous around the front of the 
palate. The anterior narrow blades were 7 inches long, and placed 
in a very reclined position (see Plate XLVII. fig. 2,c). The longest 
blades were 1 foot 9 inches in length, including the hairy ends. There 
were about 350 blades on each side; and in the middle of the series 
24 blades exactly occupied the space of 1 foot. As in the Pevensey 
Whale, the baleen was slate-coloured externally, and white at the 
inner edge ; so that the hairy surface, forming the greater part of the 
roof of the mouth, was all of a yellowish-white colour, except quite 
at the outer edge. Each blade was mainly of the dark colour, but 
near its inner border longitudinally striated with pale horn-colour. 
The position in which the animal was lying, with the lower jaw 
thrown much to one side, so as to expose the baleen-plates of the 
left side from end to end, enabled me to observe a structure which I 
did not see in the Pevensey Whale, and have not found noted in any 
description. Outside the main series of baleen-plates, growing from 
the ‘‘coronary band” (‘Horn-Kranzband” of Rosenthal*), which 
encircles their base, was a fringe of stout coarse fibres, like those of the 
inner surface of the whalebone, but strongly curled. Each of these 
fibres, or hairs, when straightened was about 3 inches in length ; and 
the whole series extended from the angle of the mouth for 18 inches 
forwards. No trace of them was to be seen more anteriorly. 
The characteristic longitudinal furrows of the throat extended 
forwards on the side of the lower lip to midway between the angle 
of the mouth and the end of the chin; but in the median line they 
* Ueber die Barten des Schnabel-Wallfisches (Akad. d. Wissenschaft. Berlin, 
1829). 
