Class IV. PIKE-HEADED WHALE. 



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length of which was not less than fifty feet ; the 

 lips were very thick, and in the mouth, which 

 was very large, was a quantity of excellent 

 whalebone.* Ed. 



Balaena tripinnis nares habens 

 cum rostro acuto, et plicis 

 in ventre. Sib. Phalain 2Q. 

 tab. 1. 



Idem. Rail Sy n. pise. 16. 



Pike-headed Whale. Dale 

 Harwich, 410. No. 3. 



La Baleine a museau pointu. 

 Btisson Cet. 224. 



Balaena fistula duplici in ros- 

 tro, dorso extremo protube- 



rantia cornuiformi. Arted. 

 Syn. 107. 



Balaena Boops. Gm. Lin. 225. 



Balaena Boops. B. fistula du- 

 plici, dorso extremo protu- 

 berantia pinnaeformi, ca- 

 pite recto obtuso, ventre 

 sulcato. Faun. Groenl. 36. 



La Baleinoptere museau-poin- 

 tu. De la Cepede. Hist, des 

 Cet. tab. 4. Jig. 2.f 



4. Pike- 

 headed. 



J.HE length of that taken on the coast of 

 Scotland, as remarked by Sir Robert Sibbald, 

 was forty-six feet, and its greatest circumference 

 twenty. 



The head was of an oblong form, sloping De? 

 down, and growing narrower to the nose, six 



* Barry's Hist, of Orkney Islands, 2Q8.' It has also occa- 

 sionally wandered into the Mediterranean, &c. 



f This figure, which seems to represent the Pike-headed 

 Whale of the British Zoology, is essentially different from the 

 subject given under the same name in Tab. 8. of the Histoire 

 des Cetacees, and which the editor conceives to be the Balcena 

 rostrata of Fabricius. Whether the Baleinoptere jubarte oi De 

 la Cepede, distinguished by a row of tubercles below the spout- 

 holes, is a species distinct from the Pike-headed Whale, remains 

 among the various uncertainties which attend the arrangement 

 of the cetaceous tribe. Ed. 



Size. 



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