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conspicaous, but not half as long as the acromion. The os humeri is not particularly thick, its width 

 at the middle is about equal to half its length. Both the lower arm-bones are very narrow, and 

 long and somewhat curved. The radius shghtly larger than the ulna. Its length is about 9 

 times its width at the middle. The length of the ulna is about 11 times its width at the middle. 

 The olecranon terminates in an oblong cartilage 2" long, and slightly forked at the extremity. 

 The carpal bones are 5 ; the 1st finger has 3, the 2nd 6, the 3rd 5, and the 4th 2 phalanges of 

 medium length. These extremities, although not very short, seem very small in comparison with 

 the skeleton. The baleen is very short. 



This skeleton was procured by D. C. Danielsen, M.D., for the museum in Bergen, from Alten, 

 in Norwegian West Pinmark, where the species, according to Danielsen, is not scarce. It is 

 probably not infrequent on the coasts of Norway.^ Only three skeletons of this whale, how- 

 ever, have, as far as is known, been preserved. The whale of which the skeleton is de- 

 scribed by Rudolphi, now in the Berlin Museum, stranded on the coast of Holstein, on 21st 

 February, 1819 j the one of which the skeleton is preserved at Leiden, stranded on the coast 

 of Holland, on 29th August, 1811 ; the third is the skeleton at Bergen.^ 



4. B. UOSTBATA, Fabricius. Bay whale or Pike whale. Swedish " Wikhval." 



Processus coronoideus of the loioer jaio high and conspicuous. Number of vertebræ 48 or 49, 

 W or \2 of which are dorsal. Baleen yelloioish-iohite. 



Balæna rostrata, O. Fabricius. Fauna Groenlandica, p. 40, 1780. 



— — /. Hunter. Observations on the Structure and (Economy of Whales; 



Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, 

 vol. Ixxvii, p. 373, 1787. 

 Balænoptera acuto-rostrata, Lacépede. Hist. Nat. des Cétacés, p. 134, tab. 8. 



— ROSTRATAj H. Kvoyer. Nogle Bemærkninger med Hensyn til. Balænop- 



tera rostrata, Naturhistorisk Tidskrift, 2 Bd., p. 617. 1838, 

 1839. 

 WiK- HVALEN (Balæna rostrata, Fabr.), S. Nilsson. L. c. p. 632 ; p. 640, fig. 1; p. 641, 



fig. 4 ; p. 644, fig. 8. 

 Pterobalæna minor, D. F. Eschricht. Zoologisch-Anatomisch-Physiologische Unter- 

 suchungen iiber die Nordischen Wallthiere, p. 169. 



^ [Dr. Koren has informed me, by letter, that a specimen of Balænoptera laticeps was killed in 



July, 1863, at Skogsvaag, near Bergen, in Norway. 1865]. I do not know what species it is that 



is spoken of under the name of " Sillhvalen {Balæna physalus, Lin.)," by the late Pastor C. U. Ekstrom, 

 in his 'Porteckning ofver Daggdjur, Foglar m. m. som funnits vid Tjorn' (Gotheb. Vetensk. och. 

 Vitterh. Samh. Handl., 1850). 



"- [A fourth skeleton, about 32' long, obtained from near the North Cape, is now in the Zoological 

 Museum at Brussels. See "Notes on the Skeletons of Whales in the Museums of Holland and 

 Belgium," 'Proc. Zool. Soc, Lond.,' Nov. 8th, 1864.— W. H. P.] 



