Bonnaterre, Ency.Cetol.

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Dauphin, Pernetty, Voyage aux Isles Malouines, 99.t.2.f.

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A head, apparently belonging to this species, was brought home and deposited in the collection of the British Museum.

This animal is very common upon the northern coasts of New Holland.
Captain King, in his manuscript, remarks, that the coasts of New South Wales, and the north-western side of New Holland, abound in cetaceous animals.

Upon the North-east Coast, within the reefs, the sea is crowded with Balaena physalis, Linn., or fin-backed whales, as they are called by the whalers, who pay little attention to them, on account of the danger of approaching them.