4. ■ BAl^NOPIERA. 7 



4. BalsBnoptera. rostra,ta. 

 (Lesser, Eorqual, or Pike Whale.) 



Balesna rostrata, Fabricius, Fauna Cfrcenl. p. 40 (1780). 

 a. Stuffed specimen ; young fejnale. (71. 3. 5. 1.) 



Weymouth. Purchased, 1871. 



The external characters and auatomy of this individual are 

 described by Mr. Perrin, P. Z. S. 1870, p. 805. 



h. Stuffed specimen and baleen-plates ; young. (46. 8. 28. 15.) 



Eiver Thames, at Deptford. Purchased, 1846. 



The baleen figured in Zool. Ereb. & Terr. pi. i. fig. 3. 



e. Stuffed specimen ; very young. 

 Greenland. 



d. Articulated skeleton. (341 a— 46. 7. 11. 1.) 



South Greenland. Purchased, 1846. 



e. Eight and left tympanic bones. (341 e & d.) 



Old Collection. 



5. BalsBnoptera huttoni. 



(Hutton's Eorqual.) 



Balsenoptera huttoni, Gray, Ann. ^ Mag. N. H. 1874, xiii. pp. 316 

 & 450, pis. xvi., xviii. 



a. Articulated skeleton, with baleen. (74. 4. 13. 2.) 



Otago Head, New Zealand, Oct. 1873. Prof. Hutton, 1874 [E.]. 

 Type of the species, which is closely allied to, if not identical 

 with, the last. 



Of UTicertain Species. 



(t. Occipital region of the cranium ; greater part of left maxilla, 



some vertebrae (including second and third cervical ossified 



together) and ribs of a large Balcsnoptera allied to, if not 



identical with, B. musmlux. (14. 46 a.) 



Formosa. E. Swinhoe, Esq. [C.]. 



Types of B. swinhoii, Gray, Ann. & Mag. N. H. (ser. 3) xvi. 



p. 148, P. Z. S. 1865, p. 725 (figures) ; and Swinhoia chinensis, 



Gray, Suppl. Cat. S. & W. p. 57 (1871). 



/3. Left tympani,c bone. (79. 8. 21. 8.) 



Cockle Cove, Straits of Magellan, February 1879 (' Alert' Expe-' 

 dition). Admiralty [P.]. 



Collected by Dr. E. W. Coppinger. 



y. Mutilated left tympanic bone. (80. 7. 28. 19.) 



a. Eight tympanic bone. (76. 2. 16. 17.) 



Port Underwood, Cook Strait, New Zealand. 



Wellington Museum [E.]. 

 Marked " Sulphur-bottom." 



