162 BALJENOPTEKID^. 



2. Fhysalus Brasiliensis. 



Balsenoptera Brasiliensis, Gray, Zool. E. SfT.Sl; Cat. Ost. Spec. App. 



142. 

 Physalus Brasiliensis, Gray, Cat. Cetac. B. M. 1850, 43. 



I have also received from Mr. Smith specimens of what is called 

 in trade Bahia Firmer, This baleen is black ; the fibres on the edge 

 of the larger flakes are purplish brown, and of the smaller or terminal 

 ones paler brown. They are 35 inches long by llj inches wide ; 

 and the smaller, 10 inches long and 4 inches wide at the base. This 

 is so different in appearance from the other baleen of this genus that 

 I propose to call it Balaenoptera BrasUiensis. 



a. Three plates of baleen, " Bahia Pinner." Bahia. 



3. Physalus ? fasciatus. The Penmian Firmer. 



" Lower jaw scarcely longer than the upper ; head and back ash- 

 brown ; belly whitish ; tips of fins and a streak from the eye to the 

 middle of the body white. Length 38 feet." — Tschudi. 



Balsenoptera, n. s., Tschudi, Mamm. Comp. Peruana, 13. 

 Balsenoptera Tschudi, Reich. Cetac. 33 ; Wiegm. Arch. 1844, 255. 

 Physalus fasciatus, Cfray, Cat. Cetac. B. M. 1850, 42. 



Inhab. coast of Peru. 



4. Physalus ludicns. 

 " Lower jaw remarkably slender." 



Balsenoptera Indica, Great Rorqual of the Indian Ocean, Blyth, Journ. 



A. S. xxi. 358, xxii. 414 ; Mep. Asiatic Society Calcutta, xxviii. 5 ; 



Friend of India, 1842, Sept. 15. 

 Balsenoptera, sp., Heuglin, in Sitmingsber. d. Math.-naturw. Acad. d. 



Wissensoh. zu Wien, 1851, vii. 449. 

 Physalus, sp.. Flower, P. Z. S. 1864, 408, note. 



Inhab. Eed Sea. Mr. Blyth records the following : — 



1. Chittagong coast, 15th August 1842, 90 feet long and 42 feet 

 in diameter. 



2. Arakan coast, 84 feet long. Lower jaw remarkably slender, 

 the coronoid process well developed. Length 21 feet. Kadius 38| 

 inches long. 



3. A large jaw-bone of a Whale (Asiat. Bes. xv. Append. p. xxxiv). 



4. Yertebra and cranium of a Whale (Asiat. Bes. xvii. 624, and 

 Glean, of Science, ii. 71). 



5. A skuU and lower jaw, 10 feet long, from Arakan. In the 

 Museum of the Calcutta Medical College. 



Whales seem to have been not unfrequently stranded on the coast 

 of Mekran. Thus Nearchus, the commander of Alexander's fleet from 

 the Indus to the Persian Gulf, b.c. 327, described the lehihyophagi 

 of that woodless region as using the bones of whales for building- 

 purposes (see Vincent's Voyage of Neaxchus, p. 267-269, quoted by 

 Blyth). 



" Whales are very rarely seen " in Ceylon ; " a dead one is occa- 



