

VERTEBEATA. 



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Tlih GREENLAND whale. 



ORDER 12.-CETACEA. 



We have hither! apicd upon the land, or if sometimes led iut<> the water, it lias been 



only in riven and lakes <« r along the shores of the Bea, and then but casually; we now enter the 



the permanenl abode of the animals whose characters we have to study. This order, the 



\, which includes the num< rous Bpecies of Whales and a multitude of allied animals, is 



