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to Bermuda, according to the season ; and lie states that lie cannot 

 find any sufiicicnt difierence in the skeleton of the Cape specimen 

 in the Paris Museum to separate it as a species from the Green- 

 land example. A J^oung female, thirty-five feet long, the pectorals 

 measuring ten feet, was obtained in the estuary of the Dee in 1863, 

 and its skeleton is now exhibited in Liverjiool. The stomach con- 

 tained only shrimps. There is a very fine and complete skeleton, 

 forty- six feet in length, of an adult individual in the museum 

 at Brussels. Dr. Gray, however, regards the Bermuda Hump- 

 back as distinct, and terms it M. americana. One is described as 

 measuring eighty-eight feet in length, with the flippers twenty- 

 six feet long, and the tail flukes twentj^-three feet broad. The 

 Cape Hump-back is the Poescopia Lalanclii of Dr. Gray ; and his 

 EiichvicJitiua robustus is a remarkable northern species, of which 

 not much is known. A skeleton of it was found in Denmark at a 

 depth of two to four feet below the surface of the ground, about 

 840 feet from the pi'cscnt sea-beach, and about twelve to fifteen 

 feet above the level of the sea. Other Hunch-backs are indicated 

 by Dr. Gray, as Megapfera novazelamllw, If. (?) Burmeisteri, from 

 the coast of Buenos Ajrres, and 31. Kiizira, from that of Japan. 



The numerous Ptorquals fell under Dr. Gray's subfamilies Phi/- 

 saliiKE and BalcEnopterinie, which do not difi'er much from each 

 other. To his genus Plii/sa/iis he refers, — 1. P. antiquorum, the 

 ordinary Great Northern Borqual ; 2. P. Duguidil, also northern ; 

 3. P. Sibbaldii (afterwards identified with Cuvienis lafirosfris, but 

 the specific name Sibbaldii being retained ; a valuable memoir 

 upon which has been published by Dr. J. Eeinhardt),* again 

 northern ; these three are now tolerably well known, but the 

 following are much less so — 4. P. (?) australis, Falkland Islands ; 

 5. P. brasiHensis, from near Bahia; 6. P (?) fasciatiis, from 

 the coast of Peru ; 7. P. indicus ; 8. P. (?) iicasi, Japanese seas ; 

 9. P. anfardicus, from those of New Zealand; 10. P. Graiji, which 

 has to be added, from the Australian colony of Victoria, where it 

 has been described by Professor McCaj', an example of it having 

 been there stranded that measured ninety feet in length, f Other 

 .species, detached from Physaliis, are Benedema Knoxii, obtained on 

 the coast of Wales ; Cuvienis Sibbaldii, already noticed ; SibbahUm 



* Translated in the Annals and Magazine of jVatiiral Eislory (.ox Nov., ISliS, p. 323. 

 f I'roceeainrjs of the Zoological Hociety, 1867, p. 707. 



