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ADDIIIONS AND COERBCTIONS. 



" The baleen is entirely black, without any other colour. "We have 

 two kinds in the Museum — one 5| feet, and the other 1 foot 8 inches 

 in length. This last only may be from the Balcmoptera ; the other 

 perhaps from a Balcma, because it is much more slender and more 

 fringed. 



" Comparing my drawing (fig. 76) with that of Cnvier from the 

 Cape Balcmoptera (Oss. Foss. pi. 26. fig. 2), you will find that the 

 suture between the frontal bone and the parietal is situated much 



Fig. 78. 



Second cervical vertebra. 

 Fig. 79. 



Fourth cervical vertebra. 



more towards the external part of the frontal bone, being in my skuU 

 exactly in the angle where both bones are united, and therefore not 

 seen from above in my drawing. Another difference of the species 



