WHALE HUNTING WITH GUN AND CAMERA 



oped, and small nodules of bone representing the 

 femur and sometimes the tibia; the latter is cartilagi- 

 nous except in rare cases. These rudiments are, of 

 course, entirely concealed within the body and can only 

 be found by carefully cutting away the flesh surround- 

 ing the sexual organs. 



The flipper of a humpback whale. "The flippers of all cetaceans 

 are merely the fore limbs of ordinary land mammals, which 

 have become overlaid with blubber to form a paddle." 



One of the most striking things about the blue 

 whale, and indeed all its relatives, are the folds which 

 extend longitudinally from the lower jaw backward 

 over the throat, breast, and abdomen. In different 

 species of whales the folds vary in number and width, 

 the furrows between them being about an inch in 

 depth and the skin capable of great extension. 



The use of the folds has been a subject of dis- 

 agreement among naturalists, but my own belief is 



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