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BAL/ENA. MYSTICETE. 



Generic Character. 



Dentiutn loco in maxilla su- 

 periore laminae cornete. 



//Vta/drespiratoria dupliciori- 

 ficio externo supra caput. 



Horny Lamina in the upper 

 jaw in place of teeth. 



Spiracle with a double exter- 

 nal orifice on the top of 

 the head. 



GREAT MYSTICETE. 



Balaena Mysticetus. B. naribus flexuosis in media capite, dorss 



impinni. Lin. Syst. Nat. p. 105. 

 Mysticete with flexuous spiracles on the middle of the head, and 



finlcss back. 

 Balaena groenlandica. B.Jistula duplici in fronte, maxilla infe- 



riore multo latiore. Lin. Mm. Ad. Frid. i.p. 51. 

 Balaena vera Rondeletii, & Balaena Rondeletii, Gesneri & aliorum. 



Willoughb. pise. p. 35. 38. 

 Wallfisch. Martens Spitzberg. p. 98. t. 9. 

 Common Whale. Pennant Brit. Zool. 3. p. 16. 

 Mysticetus, or Great Northern Whale. Nat. Misc. vol. 4. pi. 133. 



HIS Whale is, as it were, the chief of the 

 whole tribe, and, unless the Kraken be not a fa- 

 bulous existence, is the largest of all animals ei- 

 tl)er of land or sea. Before the northern whale- 



