2 BAL^NID^. 



angulata. Type of B. angulata. Gray, Suppl. Cat. SeaJs and 

 Whales (1871), p. 39. 



q. Pair of tympanic bones; very young. (79. !"■/■ Y 



Baffin's Bay. Capt. Adams, 18/9 [P.]. 



The locality from which they were obtained proves tJiat mey 

 belong to this species. They present much of the form per- 

 manently retained by B. australis. 



h. Two blades of baleen. „. (^38 * & «•) 



Greenland. Messrs. Smith and Simmonds [P-J- 



Figured Zool. Ereb. & Terr. pi. i. fig. 4 (1846). 



i. One blade of baleen. (^8 d.) 



Greenland. 



2. Balsena australis. 



(Southern Eight Whale.) 



Balaena australis, Desmoulins, Did. Class. cCHist. Nat. ii. p. 161 

 (1822). 



Under this name are provisionally included various forms which 

 have been specifically separated either according to locality or from 

 trifling structural peculiarities. Possibly some are distinct, but a 

 more thorough study, with more ample materials than are at present 

 available, will be necessary before their characters can be satisfac- 

 torily defined. 



a. Articulated skeleton ; young, (1588 a — 73. 3. 3. 1.) 



New Zealand. Dr. Haast, 1873 [C.]. 



SkuU, cervical vertebrse, and scaptila figured, P. Z. S. 1873, 

 pp. 185-140, under the name of Madeayius austraUensis*. The 

 skeleton closely resembles that of an animal taken in the Gulf of 

 Taranto, Feb. 1877, described and figured by Gasoot, assigned 

 to B. hiscayensvs. 



h. Left tympanic and periotic bones. (1469 c.) 



South Africa. George Byham, Esq. [P.]. 



Mentioned, with the next, by Gray, Cat. S. & W. p. 93 (1866). 

 Very similar to the corresponding bones of the last specimen. 



c. Eight and left tympanic and periotic bones. 



(1469 a & 6—45. 4. 10. 5 & 6.) 

 H. H. Eussell, Esq. [P.j. 



d. Left tympanic bone. (76. 2. 16. 6.) 



New Zealand. Dr. Hector, 1876 [C.]. 



This was labelled " Black Whale, Eahalmna australis." 



* A genuB and species founded upon a photograph of the cervical vorfnlirai 

 (P. Z. S. 1864, p. 588). verteorsB 



t Atti Eeale Acead. Napoli, 1878. i 



