. Catalogue of seals and whales in the British Museum . Seals (Animals); Whales. 178 BAL^JTOPTEEID^. Soc' 1840, p. 11, are evidently from the same animal, but there are some discrepancies between them. Mr. Sweeting says, breadth 21 feet; Mr. Yarrell says, girth 21 feet. Mr. Sweeting, total weight 25 tons; Mr. YarreU, probable weight between 20 and 25 tons. Mr. Sweeting, length of skeleton 41, and head 11 feet; Mr. Yarrell, 40, and head 10 feet. Mr. Sweeting says, " For the discrepancy as to the number of vertebree, &c., I am of opinion that this species has not been described before,
. Catalogue of seals and whales in the British Museum . Seals (Animals); Whales. 178 BAL^JTOPTEEID^. Soc' 1840, p. 11, are evidently from the same animal, but there are some discrepancies between them. Mr. Sweeting says, breadth 21 feet; Mr. Yarrell says, girth 21 feet. Mr. Sweeting, total weight 25 tons; Mr. YarreU, probable weight between 20 and 25 tons. Mr. Sweeting, length of skeleton 41, and head 11 feet; Mr. Yarrell, 40, and head 10 feet. Mr. Sweeting says, " For the discrepancy as to the number of vertebree, &c., I am of opinion that this species has not been described before, and I have proposed for it the name Balcenoptera tenuirostris " (Mag. Nat. Hist. 24th March, 1840,342). The skeleton here described was sold, about sixteen years ago (1859), for five pounds, to Mr. Freane, and it was stated to have been sent to London as a present to the British Museum, but it has never been received, and I cannot find any further account of it; probably it was sold for manure. B. tenuirostris is the earliest name given specially to this species, but it cannot be used for a whale with a broad nose or beak. This is most likely the same as the " Ostend "Whale," or a nearly allied species. The dorsal fin is described as small, conical, and three-fourths the length from the *•* Dorscdjm unknown. First rib elongate, dilated at sternal end. 3. Sibbaldius Schlegelii. Balsenoptera Physalus, from Java, ScKlegel, Mm. Leyden. Balssnoptera Schlegelii, Flower, MS. "Megaptera (from Java)," Van Beneden, Gray, P. Z. S. 1864,208. Balsenoptera longimana, Schlegel, Mm. Leyden. Sibbaldus Schlegelii, Gray, Ann. Sf Mag. N. H. 1864, xiv. 352. Sibbaldius Schlegelii, Flower, P. Z. S. 1864, 408, 419. Inhab. Java. Skeleton, Mus. Leyden (young); skull, Mus. Leyden. Fig. First rib of Sibbaldius Schlegelii?, in Mus; Eoy. Coll. Surgeons. There is the first rib of a whale of this genus in the Museum of the Koyal College of Surgeons, which, if it is not thi
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