t) BAL^NIDiE. 



a. Articulated skeleton ; adult male. (793 e — 82. 6. 14. 1.) 



Moray Fiith, Scotland. . Purchased, 1882. 



It measures, in a straight line, 68 feet in length. The tail- 

 flukes and dorsal fin are preserved, and attached to the pelvic 

 bones are the very rudimentary nodular femurs. 



6. Articulated skeleton.; adult. (793 c— 48. 10. 12. 20.) 



Plymouth, 1831. Purchased, 1848. 



Less perfect than the last. This skeleton was formerly ex- 

 hibited in various parts of the country, moving from town to 

 town in travelling vans. 



c. Articulated skeleton ; young. (790 c.) 



This specimen is named in the ' Catalogue of the Bones of Mam- 

 malia' (1862), p. 160, Physalus (Rorquahis) hoops. Afterwards 

 it became type of the genus and species, Benedenia knoxii. Gray, 

 P. Z. S. 1864, p. 212 ; Cat. S. & W. 1866, p. 135 (skuU and some 

 cervical vertebrae figured). 



Prom an animal taken on the coast of Wales, and towed into 

 Liverpool in 1846. Purchased. 



d. Cranium; adult. 



e. Cervical and some dorsal vertebrae, sternum, hyoid, and right 



and left tympanies. (1466 «— 56. 11. 7. 2.) 



Orkney Islands. From Mr. Heddle, 1856. 



Prom the specimen described by Heddle, P. Z. S. 1856, p. 187, 

 as Physalus duguidii; see also Cat. 8. & W. (1866) p. 158. 



/. Eight tympanic, periotic, and complete mastoid apophysis, with 

 ossicula auditus. 



2. BalsBnoptera sibhaldii. 



(Sibbald's Eorqual.) 

 Physalus (Rorqualus) sibbaldii, Oray, P. Z, S. 1847, p. 92. 

 . Articulated skeleton ; young. (1465 a— 65. 8. 23. 1.) 



Lidth-de-Jeude Collection. Purchased, 1867. 

 Type of Physalus latirosiris, Flower (P. Z. S. 1865 p. 28). 

 Cuvierius latirosiris. Gray, Cat. S. & W. p. 165. 

 Cuvierius sibbaldii, Gray, ibid. p. 380. 



3. Balsenoptera borealis. 



(Rudolphi's Eorqual.) 



Balaenoptera borealis, Zess. Hist. Nat. C4tac4s, p. 342 ("18281 

 B. laticeps, Gray, Zool. Ereh. f Terr. p. 20 (1846). 

 . Cast of right tympanic bone. /-g^ 4 26 1 'I 



Eoyal College of Surgeons TE 1 



From the specimen caught in the Eiver Crouch EssPir V=o» 



P. Z. S. 1883, p. 513). ' -^^^^^ (^^« 



