144 BAl^NOPTEKID^. 



* 7%e iipper and lower lateral processes of the third, fourth, fifth, and sixth 

 cervical vertebrm elongate, vmited, forming a ring ; the bodies of the cer- 

 vical vertehrcB oblong, transverse, much wider than high, the vpper and 

 lower edge nearly straight; the lateral process of the second cervical 

 elongated. Ribs 14 . 14. 



1. Physalus antiquorum. The Bazorhadc. 



Slate-grey, beneath, whitisli. Baleen slate-coloured; under edge 

 blackish, inner edge pale streaked. 



Razorback of the whalers. " B. Physalus, lAnn. B. Gibhar, Lac(p." — 



Scoresby, Arct. Reg. i. 479. 

 Balsena maximus borealis, Knox, Cat. Prep. Whale. 

 Great Northern Rorqual (Knox\ Jardine, Nat. Lib. t. 6 (skeleton). 

 Physalus antiq^uorum, Gray, P. Z. S. 1847, 96 ; Cat. Cetac. 38 ; P. Z. 8. 



1864, 216. f. 9-12; Heddle, P. Z. S. 1855, 195, fig. verteh. bad. 

 / Rorqual de la M^diterran^e, Lacep. t. 6. f. 1 ; Ouvier, Oss. Foss. v. 



370. t. 26. f. 5. 

 Balsena, Shaw, Zool. Misc. t. 720, from LacSp. t. 6. f. 1. 

 Balsena antiquorum, Fischer, Syn. 525 (from Cuvier), 

 Balsenoptera antiquorum. Gray, Zool. K Sr T. 50. 

 Balsena Physalus, Turton, B. F. 15 ; Jenyns, Man. 47; Nilsson, Skand. 



Fauna, 636. 

 Balsenoptera Boops (part.), Fleming, B. A. 31 ; Jenyns, Man. 47. 

 Balsena musculus, Turton, B. F. 16 ; Jenyns, Man. 47 ; Malmgren, 



Arch. Nat. 1864, 97. 

 Balaenoptera musculus, Fleming, Brit. Anim. 30; F. Cuv. Cetac. 385; 



Eachr. Sf Reinh. Om Nordhv. t. 3. f. 2 (skuU), t. 4. f. 6; Ulljehm-g, 



I.e. 42 ; Malmgren, Arch. Nat. 1864, 94. 

 Balsenoptera acuto-rostrata, Scoresby, Arct. Reg. i. 485. t. 13. f. 2. 

 Balsenoptera Boops, Bell, B. Quad. 520. f. 1. 

 Balsenoptera Physalus, ScMeg. de Dieren, 101. t. 20. 

 Borqualus antiquorum, Gervais, Compt. Rend. 1864, 676. 

 Balsena Physalus, O. Fabr. Faun. Groerd. 35. 

 Physalus vulgaris, Fleming, Brit. Anim. 32. 

 Balsenoptera Gibbar, Scoresby, Arct. Reg. i. 478. 

 Balsenoptera arctica, Schhg. Abhandl. 10. t. 9. 

 Balsenoptera borealis (part.), Rapp, Cetac. 51. 

 Pterobalsena communis, Fschricht, Van Beneden, Bull. Acad. Brux. 



ser. 1. 1857, i. 393 ; BuU. Acad. Belg. xxii. 464; Nonv. Mim.Acad. 



Brux. xxxii. (1861) 37; Arch. Naturg. 1868, 57. 

 Baleine de Sainte Oyprien, Companyo, Mem. 4to, 1830 ; Carcassonne 



%■ Farines, Mem. ; F. Cuv. C4tac. 337. 



The following may probably belong to this species : — 



1. Balsena tripennis quss rostrum acutum habet, Sibbald, PhaUmol. 29. 



t. 1. f. D, E, cop. Bonnat. Cit. E. M. t. 3. f. 2; Schreb. t. 354.— 



Nov. 17, 1690, O. S. (46 feet long). 

 Pike-headed Whale, Penn. B. Zool. iii. 40. 

 Balsena Boops, Linn. S. N. i. 106. 

 Balsena borealis, var. Boops, Fischer, Syn. 524. 

 Balsenoptera Jubartes, Lac^. CM. 120. t. 4. f. 1. 

 Jupiter-fish, Anderson, Isl. 220. 

 Pike-headed Mysticete, Shaw, Zool. ii. 492. t. 227. 



2. Balsena tripennis quse maxillam inferiorem rotundam &c., Sibbald, 



Phalcenol. 33. t. 3 ; (edit. 1792) 78. t. 3, cop. Bonnat. CM. E. M. t. 3. £ 1. 

 Round-lipped Whale, Pennant, Quad. iii. 42. 



