. Catalogue of seals and whales in the ... Museum. / . SIBBALDirS. 171 jaws slightly curved and scarcely wider than the edge of the upper ones. Pectoral fin one-eighth of the entire length, and rather more than one-third, and the dorsal nearly three-fourths, from the nose. The length was 31 feet 1 inch, from nose to the eye 2 feet 9 inches, to blower 3 feet 11 inches, to pectoral 3 feet 6| inches, to the front of the dorsal 19 feet 2 inches, to the vent 21 feet. Balc-ena rostrata, Euclolphi, Bcrl Abhrnxll. 1820, t. 1 ("not Huutm-); Brandt <^- Rutzeh. Med. Zool. i. 119. t. 15. f. 3, t.
. Catalogue of seals and whales in the ... Museum. / . SIBBALDirS. 171 jaws slightly curved and scarcely wider than the edge of the upper ones. Pectoral fin one-eighth of the entire length, and rather more than one-third, and the dorsal nearly three-fourths, from the nose. The length was 31 feet 1 inch, from nose to the eye 2 feet 9 inches, to blower 3 feet 11 inches, to pectoral 3 feet 6| inches, to the front of the dorsal 19 feet 2 inches, to the vent 21 feet. Balc-ena rostrata, Euclolphi, Bcrl Abhrnxll. 1820, t. 1 ("not Huutm-); Brandt <^- Rutzeh. Med. Zool. i. 119. t. 15. f. 3, t. 16. f. 12: Graii Cat Cetac. B. M. ' •' Rorqual du Nord, Cuvier, Oss. Foss. v. 564. t. 26. f. 6 (copied fi-om Budolphi). ^ ^ Balrenoptera laticeps, Grmj, Zool. E. <^- T. (from Budolphi); Cat. Cetac. B. M. 37. BaL-ena horealis (part.), Fischer, Sipi. 524 (from Cuvier). Bah-ena Pbysalus (part.), Kilsson, 'Scand. Faiom, 635. Pterobalwna Boops (part.), Eschricht, K. Damk. Vid. Sehk. 1840, Balajuoptera borealis (part.), Bapp, Cetac. 51. fiJ'Ou-th^*^ ^^''^cT Inhab. North Sea. Holstcin, 1819 (liudolpld): skeleton in Mus! " Berlin, 31 feet long. Zuyder Zee, 1816, skeleton in Mus. Leyden. Fio-. C:rr<M^ <^i^^CrZ'<4J^ /%zy^ U5. First rib of Sibhaldius laticeps. (From Rudolphi.) The blade-bones with an elongated coracoid process, bent up to- wards the upper edge of the bone, and only a very rudimentaiy acromion ; the upper edge arched; the ends acute, the hinder one rather produced. The forearm-bones are slender, rather dilated at each end, more than twice the length of the short thick humerus; the ulna vdih. a rounded dilatation on the upper end (olecranon)'. Fingers 4, moderately long; the two middle longest, subequal, each of .seven joints; the first shorter, of four joints; and the fourth shorter still, of three joints.—Rudolphi, t. 1. f. 1. Entire length 31 feet 1 inch. Length from nose to front of eye 5 feet 3 iiichcs, to pectoral fin 9 feet, to dorsal fin 19 feet
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