38 BAL^NID^. 



carpals. ' Cervical vertebrae united by their bodies. Upper lateral 

 process of atlas broad at tbe base, compressed, rather narrow, and 

 rounded at the end ; the lower lateral process elongate, suboylindri- 

 cal, angulated at the lower side of the base (see Cat. Whales, p. 84, 

 f. 4; Osteogr. Cet. t. 4. f. 5-9). The lower process of the second 

 and third elongate and produced ; the upper process of the second, 

 fifth, sixth, and seventh elongate, produced, and bent forward. 

 Bladebone with a large, compressed, elongate acromion (Osteogr. 

 Cet. t. 4. f. 26). Carpus cartilaginous, with three small carpal bones 

 (Osteogr. Cet. t. 4. f. 27). 



1. Balsena mysticetus. B.M. 



Balsena mysticetus, Ch-ay, I. c. pp. 81, 370, flgs. 1,2, 4, 5 ; Synops. 

 Whales §■ JDolph.v. 1, 1. 1. f. 4 (baleen) ; JR. Broum, P. Z. S. 1868, 

 p. 534. 



Inhab. North Sea. 



Dr. Eobert Brown gives an account and notes of the habits and 

 migrations of this animal. He observes : — " Where the Whale goes 

 to in winter is stOl unknown. It is said that it leaves Davis Strait 

 about the month of November, and produces young in the St. Law- 

 rence River, between Quebec and Camaroa, returning to Davis Strait 

 in the spring. At all events, early in the year they are found on 

 the coast of Labrador, where the English whalers occasionally attack 

 them ; but the ships arrive generally too late, and the weather«at 

 that season is too tempestuous to render the ' south-west fishing * 

 very attractive. ... It is said that early in September they enter 

 Cumberland (Hogarth's) Sound in great numbers, and remain until 

 it is completely frozen up, which, according to the Eskimo account, 

 is not until January. . . . They enter the Sound again in the spring, 

 and remain until the heat of summer has melted oif the land-floes 

 in these comparatively southern latitudes. It thus appears that 

 they winter and produce their young aU. along the broken water off 

 the southern coasts of Hudson's Strait, Davis Strait, and La- 

 brador." 



He continues, " I am strongly of belief that the Whales of the 

 Spitzbergen sea never, as a body, visit Davis Strait, but vsdnter 

 somewhere in the open water at the southern edge of the northern 

 ice-fields. The Whales are being gradually driven further north." 



2. BalsBua mediterranea. 



Balsena mediterranea, Gh'ay, Ann. ^ Mag. Nat. Hist. 1870, vi. pp. 198, 



200. 

 Baleine, Lac^ide, Citac4s, tab. 7. flg, 1. 

 Balsena biscayensis (part.), Van Beneden, OsUogr. Cit. tab. 7. flg. 1 



(animal), figs. 8-11 (nuchal vertebraa), flgs. 2, 3 (P vertebrse). 



Inhab. Mediterranean, I. St. Marguerite (Lac&pide). 



