. Catalogue of seals and whales in the British Museum. British Museum (Natural History); Seals (Animals); Whales. 2. EFBAL^NA. 95 " The whale feeling herself covered and uncomfortable from barnacles on her skin, strikes in from the mouth of the river (Murray), and there plays and gambols for hours just outside or among the breakers. Having roUed the barnacles off in the fresh water, she takes to sea. It is the knowledge that the fresh water kills the barnacles that brings her in. Whenever it was practicable, my whalers, as weU as those of the opposition fishery, were glad to take advantag
. Catalogue of seals and whales in the British Museum. British Museum (Natural History); Seals (Animals); Whales. 2. EFBAL^NA. 95 " The whale feeling herself covered and uncomfortable from barnacles on her skin, strikes in from the mouth of the river (Murray), and there plays and gambols for hours just outside or among the breakers. Having roUed the barnacles off in the fresh water, she takes to sea. It is the knowledge that the fresh water kills the barnacles that brings her in. Whenever it was practicable, my whalers, as weU as those of the opposition fishery, were glad to take advantage of this peculiarity of the ;—Cadell, Journ. Bay. Geogr. Soc. 1855,179. This is most probably distinct from Eubalcena australis (Balcena australis, Yoy. Pole Sud). Captain Sganzin (Mem. de la Soc. du Mus. H. N. de Strasbourg, iii. 2) states, that Tuhicinella Balcenarum is found on the large whales which are taken accidentally on the coast of Madagascar, but never on the young whales which are caught in the Canal of St. Maria. The latter have rarely some specimens of the Coronula Diadema attached to them. The old whales which are stranded on the shores of St. Maria, on the contrary, are often covered with large numbers of the Coronula Balcenaris. Mr. Holdsworth has presented to the British Museum a specimen which had been received from an American whaler, as " the Bonnet of Balmia Mysticetus, obtained at the Sandwich ; Fiff. The specimen is oblong, 11 inches long, and 8 inches wide, very irregular in outline, with a very rough pitted surface, four of the pits being much larger than the rest, and dividing the surface into six prominences. The whole substance seems to be formed of irregular homy layers placed one under the other, the lowest layer being the one last formed; and each of these layers is more or less crumpled and plicated on the surface, giving the irregular appearance to the mass. The lower layer is attached to the skin of the whale
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