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- The synonyma will, therefore, run thus :— 
Balena marginata, Gray, Zool. Erebus and Terror, p. 48, t. 1, Е 1: (baleen 
only). 
Caperea antipodarum, Gray, P.Z.&., 1864, p. 202, fig. ; Cat. Seals and 
Whales, p. 101, fig. 9 (ear-bone only) ; Cat. Suppl. (part only). 
Neobalena marginata, Gray, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., 1870, V., p. 221; 
VI. p. 155, figs. 1 and 2 ; Suppl. Cat., p. 40, f. 1 and 2 (drawing of 
skull only). 
I applied the name of antipodarum to this species, believing it to be the 
Black Whale of New Zealand, of which Dr. Dieffenbach had brought such an 
accurate figure ; and I was confirmed in thinking it the same as the skeleton 
from New Zealand, which was in the Paris Museum, by the observations of 
M. Milne-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. 1 have never seen the skeleton 
myself, for when I was in Paris they considered it a duplieate of the one they 
had set up, and not worth my seeing. I think it better to retain the name 
of Neobalena for this genus. The genus Caperea, though first established on 
the ear-bone of this genus, has had its character enlarged by the 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, some person wishing to 
append his name to a new-named old genus, will give it a new 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 come from New Zealand, in the Belgian Museum. Now, as there 
are at least two Black, or Right Whales, with very different shoulder-blades, 
that inhabit the coasts of New Zealand, it is not possible to say to which of 
these species the specimens figured by M. Van Beneden belong. 
2. Eubalena australis. 
There are at least two Black Whales in New Zealand, and, as yet, I have 
no evidence that the Zubalena australis has been taken in New Zealand seas. 
It is doubtful to which of the two Right Whales the animal figured by 
Dr. Dieffenbaeh really belongs. I applied to that figure the name of Balena 
antipodarum (Dieffenb. New Zeal, t. 1), and Balena 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-Edwards, Professor 
Lilljeborg, myself, and M. Van Beneden in the Ost. Cétacés, I believe it 
will be better to retain it for that species ; the form of the blade-bone, which 
is different from that of all the other Right Whales known, is not likely to 
be connected with a change in the external form of the animal. 
