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THE PIKE WHALE. 



body. When the integument is removed it is seen to be provided with only four fingers. The 

 Latin specific name, longimana, signifies "long-handed." In color it is white. The dorsal 



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fins are placed rather low, and behind the middle of the body. This Whale is always infested 

 with sundry parasitic animals belonging to the genera Diadema and Otion. 



ALL the true carnivorous Whales are remarkable for the great proportionate size of the 

 head. The PIKE WHALE, as may be seen from the illustration, belongs to this group of 

 animals, and in some respects is not dissimilar to the Greenland Whale. 



This .-inimal is, however, not nearly so large as the preceding, being only about twenty- 

 five feet in length when adult. It is furnished with baleen, but the plates are comparatively 

 short, and of a slight pinkish hue. The volume of the mouth is made up by a development of 



