Class IV. SHARP-NOSED WHALE. 73 



thinner parts. The skin of the thorax and the 

 fore part of the belly was plaited or folded ; the 

 sulci, twenty-four in number, extended irom the 

 lower lip, to nearly four feet beyond the pectoral 

 fins ; the tongue was black, large, soft, and 

 smooth. In the color of the body and general 

 character it corresponded with the specimen 

 noticed by Sibbald. The ingenious secretary of 

 the Wernerian Society has distinguished this 

 by the name of the Fin Whale, but as this appel- 

 lation has been given to a species with a smooth 

 belly or devoid of fold, the editor has rather 

 referred it to the Pike-headed Whale of the 

 British Zoology. Ed. 



Balaena rostrata. B. rostro tro longissimo et acutissimo. 5. Sharp- 



strictiore, dorso pinnato, la- Mull. Zool. Dan. prod. 7. Nosed.* 



minis oris albis. Faun. La Baleinoptere museau poin- 

 Groenl. 40. tu - ^e la Cepede Hist, des 



Bakena rostrata. Gm. Lin. Cet. 134. tab. 8. 



226. Hunter in Ph. Trans. 373. 



Balaena (rostrata) minina, ros- tab. 20, 21, 22. 



[THIS is the smallest of the whale tribe, sel- Descrip. 

 dom exceeding the length of twenty-five feet. 

 Its beak or the extremity of the mouth is singu- 

 larly prolonged, the upper jaw shorter and 

 narrower than the lower; the pectoral fin is 



* The editor has given this trivial name to prevent its being 

 confounded with the Beaked Whale of the former edition of the 

 British Zoology, and which he has, with some hesitation, refer- 

 red to the new genus of Hyperoodon. Ed. 



