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species of which Rudolphi's specimen was the type, and this
was translated into Latin by Lesson, as Balaenoptera 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 be 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.
Postsceipt.—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.