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resident of Haugesund^ in Norway, that a Fin-whale, 47 yards Norwegian measure, or 49 yards Swedish 

 measure, was once stranded at the latter place. As the species in question, according to statements 

 about the Ostend specimen^ seems to reach a larger size than the other Balænopteræ, it is probable 

 that this Fin-whale, stranded at Karmo, near Haugesund, was of this species. Professor C. J. 

 Sundevall has kindly given me a figure of a shoulder-blade found by him on the sea-shore in 

 Norwegian Finmark. This figure, on which the length is stated as 2' 8", and the width 4' 3", corresponds 

 exactly with Dubar's figure of the shoulder-blade of the Ostend whale. It differs from the shoulder- 

 blade of B. musculus in the acromion being comparatively larger, and in its direction somewhat 

 diverging from the processus coracoideus, making the angle that it forms with the upper part of the 

 anterior edge of the scapula smaller. On the other hand, the acromion is less separated and less 

 diverging from the processus coracoideus than in B. laticeps ; and this shoulder-blade has thus, not- 

 withstanding its smaller width, probably not belonged to that species. 



Measurements of B. gigas. 





The Ostend 



The Ostend 



The Greenland 





specimen 





specimen 





according to 

 Van Breda. 



specimen 



according to 



Dubar. 



according to 

 Moller. 



Entire length of animal ..... 



Female. 



i'emale. 



84' 7" 



105' 



71' 



Height of body behind the pectoral fins, about . 





7' 







— 



Distance from point of snout to pectoral fins 





23' 4" 







23' 



„ „ „ umbilicus 





46' 4" 







37' 6" 



„ „ „ the genital organs 





55' 2" 







48' 



„ „ „ the dorsal fin^ . 





61' 







56' 



Length of pectoral fins 





10' 6" 







7' 10"2 



Width 







2' 2" 







3' 5" 



Height of dorsal fin 







— 







4" 



Width of caudal fin 







— 







16' 8" 



Length of the largest baleen plates 







— 







4' 



„ lower jaw-bones 







— 



22' 4" 



— 



Height 







— 



1' 91" 



— 



Width of skull 







— 



6' 9" 



— 



„ atlas 







— 



3' r 



— 



„ sternum 







— 



r 81" 



— 



Length of second rib . 







— 



8' 4§" 



— 



third „ . 







— 



9' 3" 



— 



„ shoulder-blade 







— 



3' 7|" 



— 



Width 







— 



5' lljZ." 



— 



Length of os humeri . 







— 



2' 4iV' 



— 



„ radius and ulna 







— 



4' 11" 



— 



„ the anterior extremity, on the skeleton, according to 









Eschricht ....... 



— 



— 



11' 81" 



^ This distance is, in the Ostend specimen, estimated from the position of the vent. In the Green- 

 land specimen it is calculated from the distance betwen the notch of the caudal fin and the dorsal fin. 

 " Eschricht considers this measurement too short. 



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