3. MEGAl'TBBA. 4. BAI^NOPTEEA. 5 



It is uncertain whether all the following specimens of Megaptera 

 should be referred to one species or to several. If more than one, 

 their distinctive characters have not been as j-et clearly defined. 



a. Articulated skeleton ; nearly adult. (792 5.) 



Greenland. Professor Eschricht [Purchased]. 



h. Skull with the baleen. (792 a.) 



Greenland. Professor Eschricht [Purchased], 



c. Skull ; young. 



d. SkuU and portions of skeleton, including the cervical and dorsal 



vertebrae, ribs and scapula ; adult. 



California. Keoeived in exchange from Dr. Hector. 



These were mixed, when they arrived, with the bones of several 

 other individuals ; it is therefore not absolutely certain that they 

 all belong to the same animal. 



e. Skull ; young. (1468 d—7&. 2. 15. 1.) 



New Zealand. "Wellington Museum, 1876 [E.]. 



Labelled by Dr. Gray " Megaptera ■^ovce-zedlandim." 



f. Eight tympanic bone ; mutilated. (52. 1. 23. 10.) 



purchased, 1852. 



a. Left tympanic bone. 



"Mr. Widdop." 



h. Bight tympanic and periotio bones. (1468 a.) 



Otago, New Zealand. Mr. Stuart [P.]. 



Type of M. novce-zealandice. Gray ; described and figured P. Z. S. 

 1864, p. 207, and Cat. S. & W. (1866) p. 128, fig. 20. 



i. Eight and left tympanic bones. (1468 6 & c— 56. 4. 6. 1) 



New Zealand. J. Dobson, Esq., 1856 [P.]. 



j. Foetus. In spirit. (46. 10. 27. 6.) 



Greenland. 



4. BALfflNOPTEEA. 

 1. Balsenoptera musculus. 

 (Common Eorqual, or Ein-Whale.) 

 Baljena physalus and Balsena musculus, Linn. Syst. Nat: ed. 12, i. 



BiSsena physalus, Fdbncius, Fmma Grcmlandica, p. 35 (1780). 

 BalEenoptera rorqual, Lacephde, CHaces, pp. xxxvii & 126 (1804). 

 Bal^na antiquoium, Fisclier, Syn. Mamm. p. 525 (1829). 

 Balsenoptera musculus {Linn.), Companyo, M&m. desonp.de la 

 Baleine ichou4e pres de St.-Cyprien, ^. 2Z i\%m) ; J an Beneden 

 , and Gervais, OsUog. Cetach, p. 167 (1869-80), and most modern 



Balsenoptera physalus (Linn.), Gray, Zool. Ereh. Sr Terr. p. 18 



Physalus antiquorum, Gray, P. Z. S. 1847, p. 90. 



