THE ORDER CETACEA. 



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or anus is about six inches behind the pudendum of the 

 female ; but, in the male, it is more distant from the 

 organ of generation. 



COLOUR OF THE SKIN. 

 The colour of the baleena mysticetus is a velvet black' 

 grey (composed of dots of blackish -brown, on a white 

 ground), and white, with a tinge of yellow. The pos- 

 terior part of the upper 



jaw, and part of the lower 

 jaw, together with the fins 

 and tail, are black. The 

 tongue, the anterior part 

 of the under jaw and lip ; 

 sometimes, a little of the 

 upper jaw, at the extremi- 

 ties, and a portion of the 

 belly, are white, as the 

 annexed cut exemplifies. 



The eye-lids, the junc- 

 tion of the tail with the 

 body, a portion of the 

 axilla or arm -pits of the 

 fins, are grey. Captain 

 Scoresby andMr.O'Reilly 

 state, that they have seen 

 piedbald whales, and one 

 our seamen captured was 

 of this appearance. The 

 older animals contain the most grey and white ; under- 

 sized whales are altogether of a bluish-black, and suckers 

 are of a pale blue or bluish-grey colour. 



The skin of the body is slightly furrowed, like the 

 water-lines in coarse laid paper ; on the tail, fins, &c, 



