BAL^NOPTERA. 
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CETACEA. 
BALA^NID^. 
BAL^NOPTERA. 
Balanoptera, Lacepede, Hist. Nat. Cetacees, 1804, p. 114. 
Dr. Anderson obtained one specimen of Fin-Whale from the Red Sea, which was 
cast ashore in April 1893 near Tor, on the Sinaitic Peninsula. With the kind 
assistance of Mr. A. R. Weston, Head of the Post-Office at Suez, and of Mr. N. Beyts, 
the entire skeleton was collected and preserved. 
This is probably a specimen of B. edeni, Anderson, the Lesser Indian Fin-Whale, 
described in Zool. Res. W. Yunnan, 1878, p. 651, and, judging from the size of the 
bones, which are now in the British Museum, the animal would have been somewhat 
over forty feet in length. 
Ehrenberg mentions having seen large mandibles of whales thrown up by the sea 
on the shore of Arabia, for which he suggests the name Balcena hitan (? australis), but 
gives no description. It is most unlikely that Ehrenberg saw the mandibles of 
a Right Whale {Balmna), and these bones probably belonged to Balosnoptera edeni. 
Capt. J. F. M. Prinsep, R.N,, writing to Dr. Anderson, says;—“When at Akik, 
about 80 miles south of Suakin, the ship was surrounded one day by a school 
of whales.”— W. E. de W. 
