BALAENOPTERA. 313 



The Greenland Right Whale. 

 Distribution. — Arctic Seas. 



a. A flake of Baleen Dr. McGowan, i8€o, 



A.S.B. 



Genus BALAENOPTERA. 



Balaenoptera, Lacepede Hist. Nat. Cetaces Tab. Ordres, p. xxxvi (1804)*. 



The Whales inhabiting the Northern Indian Ocean were first 

 investigated by Blyth who described, from the remains catalogued 

 below, Balaenoptera indica; Anderson (see below) believes that 

 there are at least 3 species of Finback whales found in the Indian 

 seas. Balaenoptera indica, the largest about 84 feet in length ; a 

 median-sized whale, whose existence is only indicated by certain 

 vertebrae now in the Museum, attaining a length of about 60 feet 

 for which he proposed the name Balaenoptera blythi; and a small 

 species not exceeding 40 feet, which is founded on the nearly 

 complete skeleton of the Sittang Whale (see below), for which the 

 name B. edeni is proposed ; these whales all seem to be closely al- 

 lied to a species, Balaenoptera schlegelii, described by Prof. Flower 

 (P. Z. S., 1864, p. 400) from Java and afterwards described and 

 figured in great detail by Van Beneden and Gervais in the Osteo- 

 graphie des C^tacfes ; they do not seem to differ from one another 

 at all except in size. 



Balaenoptera indica. 



Balaenoptera sp., Blyth J. A. S. B., xxi, p. 358 (1852); id. y. A. S. B., xxii, 



p. 414- 

 Balaenoptera indica, Blyth J. A. S. B., xxviii, p. 488(1859) ; id. J. A. S. B., 

 xxix, p. 451 ; id. Cat. no. 288, p. 93; Jerdon Mamm., p. 161 ; Anderson 

 Anat. Zool. Res., p. $5^ ! Murray Zool. Sind, p. 41. 



Distribution, — The Bay of Bengal and the northern part of the 

 Indian Ocean ; this is probably also the whale recorded from 

 the Arabian Sea and Persian Gulf. 



a. Lower jaws, Ieft\ 



'tu'^^Iuf ' 1""^'^ Amherst Isle, Arakan T. P. Sparks, A.S.B. 

 9th, 1 1 th lumbar, > Coast 



3rd caudal verte A 

 brae and i rib. J 



[Type of Balaenoptera indica, Blyth.] 



b. Pt. of skull, atlas, N 



I lumbar 2 cau- / 



dal, body of a A 



dorsal vertebra,v_ . Sondip Isle, Babu Uday Chand 



3 ribs, rightf J " nr. Chittagong, 1 1-74. Dutt. 



shoulder girdIe,V 



hyoid and some \ 



epiphyses. / 



