Whale lately taken in the River Crouch. 115 
species of which Rudolphi’s specimen was the type, and this 
was translated into Latin by Lesson, as Balcenoptera borealis, 
in his ‘Histoire Naturelle des Cetaces,’ p. 342 (1828). 
Although there was afterwards a confusion between this 
species and the larger one now known as B. sibbaldii, and the 
name borealis sometimes applied to the latter, of its first 
application to this species there can he no doubt, as it has 
distinct priority over Gray’s name laticeps (‘ Zoology of the 
Voyage of the Erebus and Terror,’ 1846), also founded on 
Rudolphi’s description, and which is moreover very inappro¬ 
priate, as the head is not wider proportionately than in other 
members of the genus. 
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Postscript.— The delay in the publication of this paper 
has enabled me to add, that in the month of September, 1884, 
a whale of the same species, and about the same size, was 
caught near Goole, in the River Humber. The skeleton is 
being prepared for the collection of Cetacea in the British 
Museum. 
