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BALiENOPTEEIDvE. 



scribed by Farines and Carcassonne as Balcenoptera Aragous. That 

 at St. Tropez, in 1833 ; those of the He Sainte Marguerite, one in 

 1797, described by Lacep^de and Cuvier, and the other in 1864.; 

 and two or three others taken near Toulon, of which the skull or 

 the entire skeleton have been preserved." — Oomptes Reiidus, 28 Nov. 

 1864, 876 ; Ann. Sf Mag. N. H. 1865, xv. 77. 



Albers (Icon. Anat. 1822, t. 1) figures, under the name of Balrnia 

 Boops, the skeleton of a whale cast ashore at Vegisack, near Bremen, 

 in 1669. The length was 29 feet; length of pectoral fin 3, width 

 of tail 9 feet. Camper (Cetac. 74. 1. 11, 12) figures the skull of this 

 specimen. Cuvier says he compared this skull with the one from 

 He St. Marguerite, figured by Lacepede, and could see no difference 

 between them. Albers's figures would lead to the idea that the 

 lower jaw was scarcely wider than the upper ; this is corrected by 

 Camper. Professor Eschricht considers Albers's specimen the same 

 as Hunter's B. rostrata ; but it agrees with the whales of this genus 

 in having 34 and 35 lumbar and caudal vertebrae. 



* The upper and lower lateral processes of the third, fourth, fifth, and sixth 

 cervical vertebrcs elongate, slender, free at the ertds ; the upper arte bent 

 down ; the lateral process of the second cervical large, truncated. Body 

 of the cervical vertebrae oblong, ovate, not much broader than high ; the 

 upper edge concave ; the lower very slightly convex. Mibs 15 . 15. 



2. Fhysalus Du^dii. 



The Orkney Whale (Physalus Dugiiidii), Heddle, Proc. Zool. Soe. 1856, 

 187, Mamm. t. 44 & 45, anat. d & $ ; Arch. JVatterg. 1858, 56. 



Physalus Duguidii, Oray, P, Z. S. 1864, 221. f. 13, 14, 15 ; Ann. 8f 

 Mag. N. S. 1864, 352. 



Inhab. Orkney {Heddle). 



Atlas of Physalus Duguidii, 

 Extreme width 21 inches; height 12^ inches. 



