Class IV. COMMON WHALE. 



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GENUS I. WHALE. 



Teeth none, with horny laminae in their 

 mouths. 



* Without a dorsal fin. 



My<rn'xY/toj. Arist. hist. an. 

 Lib. III. c. 12. 



Musculus Plinii, Lib. XI. c. 

 37- 



Balaena. Rondel. 475. Gesner 

 Pise. 114. 



Balaena major, laminas cor- 

 neas in superiore maxilla 

 habens, fistula donata, bi- 

 pinnis. Sib. Phalain. 28. 



Balaena vulgaris edentula, dor- 

 so non pinnato. Rail Syn. 

 pise. 6. 



Balaena. Rondel. 475. Wil. 

 Icth. 35. 



The Whale. Marten's Spitz- 



lerg. 130. Crantz's Greenl. I. Common. 



I. 107. 

 La Baleine ordinaire. Brisson 



Cet. 218. 

 Balaena fistula in medio capite, 



dorso caudam versus acu- 



minato. Arted. Syn. 106. 



Sp. 106. 

 Balaena mysticetus. Gm. Lin. 



223. Gronlands Walfisk. 



Faun. Suec. No. 49. 

 Balaena. Gronov. Zooph. 29- 

 Duhamel. Tr. des Pesches. iii. 



sect. 10. 4. tab. 1. 

 La Baleine franche. De la Ce- 



pede. Hist, des Cet. Tab. 1. 



Mi- 



XHIS species is the largest of all animals. 

 Whales are even at present sometimes found in 

 the northern seas ninety feet in length ; but 

 formerly they were taken of a much greater size, 

 when the captures were less frequent, and they 

 had time to grow. Such is their bulk within 

 the arctic circle, but in the torrid zone, where 



