Class IV. PIKE-HEADED WHALE. 71 



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. 



Balsena tripinnis nares habens rantia cornuiformi. Arted. 4. Pike- 



cum rostro acuto, et pljcis Syn. 107. headed. 



in ventre. Sib. Phalain 2Q. Balaena Boops. Gm. Lin. 225. 



tab. 1. Balsena Boops. B. fistula du- 



Idem. Rail Syn. pise. 1(3. plici, dorso extremo protu- 



Pike-headed Whale. Dale berantia pinnseformi, ca- 



'Harwich, 410. No. 3. pite recto obtuso, ventre 



La Baleine a museau pointu. sulcato. Faun. Groenl. 36. 



Brisson Get. 224. La Baleinoptere museau-poin- 



Balssna fistula duplici in ros- tu. De la Cepede. Hist, des 



tro, dorso extremo protube- Cet. tab. 4. Jig. 2.f 



Size. 



jLHE 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 Descrip- 

 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 Balwna 

 rostrataoi Fabricius . Whether the Baleinoptere jubarle of 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. 



