Figure 51. — A stranded right whale at Narragensett Bay, R.I. Note the narrow, highly arched lower jaw, the 

 extremely long, narrow baleen plates, reaching lengths of 6.5 feet (2.0 m), or more; and the bonnet (the 

 protuberance near the tip of the upper jaw). (Photo from U.S. National Museum, courtesy of J. G. Mead.) 



Figure 52. - A ventral view of a harpooned female right whale at Newfoundland. Note that this species, like the bowhead, lacks the series of ventral grooves 

 which characterize all other baleen whales of the western North Atlantic. Note also the absence of the vest of white on the chin, a feature which is- 

 characteristic of the bowhead whale. Some right whales, however, do have extensive regions of white on the ventral surface, including the chin. [Photo 

 from U.S. National Museum, courtesy of J. G. Mead.) 



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