68 FIN WHALE. Class IV. 



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With a dorsal fin or protuberance.'!" 



2. Fin. Balaena edentula corpore stric- tubero pinniformi in extre- 



tiore, dorso pinnato. Rati mo dorso. Arted. syn. 107. 



syn. pise. g. Balsena Physalus. Gm. Lin. 



Dale Harwich, 410. No. 2. 224. 



Fin Fish. Marten's Spitzberg. Balsena Physalus. fi. fistula 



165.' duplici in medio capite, 



Egede Greenl. 6b. Crantz dorso extremo pinna adi- 



Greenl. I. 110. posa. Faun. Groenl. 35. 



Balaena tripinnis, ventre laevi. La Baleinoptere Gibbar. De 



Le Gibbar. Brisson Cet. la Cepede. Hist, des Cet. 



222. 114. tab. 1. Jig. 2. 

 Balaena fistula in medio capite 



JLHIS species is distinguished from the com- 

 mon whale by a fin on the back, placed very 

 low and near the tail. 

 Descrip- J n length it is equal to that of the common 

 kind, but much more slender. It is furnished 

 with whalebone in the upper jaw, mixed with 

 hairs, but short and knotty, and of little value. 

 The blubber also on the body of this kind is very 

 inconsiderable ; these circumstances, added to 

 its extreme fierceness and agility, which renders 



f De la Cepede has formed a separate genus of this division, 

 under the name of Baleinoptere, but as the characters of the 

 Cetaceous tribe in the British Zoology are derived chiefly from 

 the teeth, the editor has not thought proper to multiply the 

 »enera. Ed. 



tion. 



