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Show 1873.] DR. J. E. GRAY ON NEW-ZEALAND WHALES. 139 Fig. 2 c. Cervical vertebra** of Macleayius australiensis (back view). Fig. 3. Sternum of Macleayius australiensis. In tbe British Museum there is a mass of cervical vertebrae which was dredged up at L y m e Regis, on the coast of Dorsetshire. It is described at length and figured in the Cat. Seals and Whales Brit. Mus. p. 83, f. 3, as belonging to an unknown species oi Baleena. The figure is copied in M . van Beneden's 'Osteographie,' t. viii. f. 7, and referred to Baleena biscayensis. In the Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (vol. vi. pp. 198, 204, 1870) I called it Baleena britannica or Macleayius britannicus; and it appears under the latter name in the Suppl. Cat. Seals and Whales, p. 46. Now we have the mass of cervical vertebrae of the original Macleayius from N e w Zealand, it is quite clear that the vertebrae from Lyme Regis do not belong to that genus, and are |
