THE FINWIIALE FISHERY OP FINMARK. 467 



latter figure is merely an outline, no coloration being shown, as 

 the specimen from which it was drawn, having been for some 

 time exposed to the action of the sea, had entirely lost the outer 

 cuticle. The baleen-plates are narrow, black on the outer edge, 

 then slate-colour, gradually striping to yellow on the inner. The 

 bristles are light yellow, almost buff. 



I noted the following few particulars of the anatomy of the 

 foetus : — The intestine was distinctly divisible into large and 

 small intestine ; the former extended about three-quarters of an 

 inch beyond the commencement of the latter — not enough to call 

 a coecum. The colon was about 4 ft. long. The kidneys are 

 long ovals, almost pointed at the lower end, coarsely granulated, 

 flattened, and much larger proportionately than the kidneys of 

 any other order of Mammalia with which I am acquainted. The 

 liver is divided into two lobes, each slightly smaller than, and 

 much the shape of, the kidneys. 



In the first of the three stomachs I found a small quantity of 

 two species of Algce, which I presume must have been forced 

 there by the action of the tides since it had been lying on the 

 beach. The heart was very broad ; the ventricles were separated 

 from each other on the inferior side by a well-marked depression 

 running down the exact centre. The cavity of the thorax was 

 much compressed. The diaphragm was very thick and muscular. 



An idea prevails apparently amongst all, or at least a large 

 majority of those connected with the whaling in Finmarken, that 

 hybrids occur between the Common and Sibbald's Eorqual, and, 

 without for one moment believing this to be the case, I have 

 thought it well to refer to this belief, as showing, as I suppose, 

 the variation in individuals of the common species. Captain F. 

 describes these supposed hybrids as having the head of a Finner, 

 the tail of a Blue Whale ; bluer on the back than a Finner, and 

 blue and white on the under side. Captain S. says the baleen is 

 partly black, partly yellow ; the flippers like a Finwhale's, but 

 blue colour ; the fin like a Finner' s with the point cut off. 

 Captain Bn. says he once killed one that was so fat it could not 

 go fast ! It had the narrow head, light-coloured baleen, and 

 small flippers of a Finner ; and had some white on the under 

 side, but was on the whole darker than a regular Finwhale. 

 Captain. Bg. describes them as most like Finners when cauo-ht 

 but like Blue Whales when the spoek is off. Captain Bn. also 



