SPECIES OF MAMMALIA. 



Icon. Bonnaterre. 



Habitat. Northern Seas nearest the pole 



921. 2. Ph. Svlcatus (Furrowed Cachalot.) Teeth of 

 lower jaw pointed and straight ; incline<l furrows on each 

 side of this jaw; dorsal fin conical, situated above the 

 pectorals, which it equals in length; dimensions unknown. 



Physeter Sulcatus, Lacep. Mem. du Mm. 



Icon. 



Habitat. Seas of Japan, and perhaps the North Pacific. 



Obs. Taken from a Chinese figure, communicated to M. 

 Lacepede by M .Abel Remusat. 



Orthodon and Mular are not separated by the Baron from 

 Microps. 



Genus II. — Bal^ena, Linn. 



Teeth none ; upper jaw keel-formed, furnished on each 

 side with whalebones or transverse corneous laminae, 

 slender, serrated, and attenuated at the edges ; orifices of 

 the spiracles separated, and situate towards the middle of 

 the upper portion of the head ; a dorsal fin in some species, 

 nodosities on the back in others ; short caecum ; feeds on 

 small fish and moUusca, 8^c. ; inhabits the Northern Seas, 

 but some species frequent the temperate zones. 



Sub-genus I. — Bal^ena, Lacep. No dorsal fin. 



922. 1. B. Mysticetus (Common Whale.) Body thick 

 and short ; tail short ; no boss on the back ; upper jaw 

 furnished with about seven hundred transverse laminae or 

 whalebones ; eighty to one hundred feet long. 



Balsena Major, Sibbald. Bala?na Vulg. Griienlandica, 

 Briss., 0th. Fabricus. Balajna Mysticetus, Linn., Erx., Gm. 

 Baleine Franche, Bonnat. Lacep. 



Icon. Ency. Cet. Lacep. 



Habitat. Atlantic Ocean and Polar Seas in the neigh- 

 bourhood of Groenland. 



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