386 BiL^NID^. 



Length (along curve of belly) ..... 65 feet 



Greatest girth 30 ,, 



Length of head 21 ,, 



,, of flipper (from head of humerus) . . 8 ,, 



Breadth of tail 24 ,, 



For a full account of the structure and geographical 

 distribution of this species we may refer our readers to 

 the paper " Om Nordhvalen," by Professors Eschricht 

 and Reinhardt, of which there is a translation in "Recent 

 Memoirs on the Cetacea," published by the Ray Society. 

 A fine adult skeleton — 'that of a Whale taken near Hol- 

 steinborg in Greenland in the winter of 1861-2, is' now 

 mounted in the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons 

 of London. 



