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BAL.^NA. MYSTICETE. 

 Generic Character, 



Dentium loco in maxilla su- 

 periore laminse cornese. 



jF/>/«/^respiratoria dupliciori- 

 ficio externo supra caput. 



Horny Lamina in the upper 

 jaw in place of teeth. 



Spiracle with a double exter- 

 nal orifice on the top of 

 the head. 



GREAT MYSTICETE. 



Balaena Mysticetus. B. narihus Jlexuosis in medio capite, dor so 



impifini, Lin. Si/sf. Nat. p. 105. 

 Mysticete with flexuous spiracles on the middle of the head;, and 



finless back. 



Balaena groenlandica. B.Jisiida duplici in fronte, maxilla infe* 

 riore multe latiore. Lin. Mus, Ad. Frid. 1. p. ^i. 



Balaena vera Rondeletii, &: Balaena Rondqjetiij Gesneri & aliorum. 

 WilloKghb. pise. p. 35. 38. 



Wallfisch. Martens Spitzberg. p, 98. t. 9. 



Common Whale, Pennant Brit, ZooL 3. p, 16. 



Mysticetus, or Great Northern Whale. Nat. Misc, vol. 4. pi. 13^. 



TThIS Whale is, as it were, the chief of the 

 whole trihe, and, unless the Kraken be not a fa- 

 bulous existence, is the largest of all animals ei- 

 ther of land or sea. Before the northern whale- 



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