494 BUNCHED MYSTICETE. 



of other whales ; and from the skinny flap at the 

 root of the tongue, as well as from the intestines, 

 are prepared windows by the Greenlanderft. 



BUNCHED MYSTICETE. 



Balaena Gibbasa. B. dorso gihhoso, pinna dorsali nulla. Lin. 



Syst. Nat, Gmel. p. 225. 

 Whale with one or more gibbous excrescences on the back, anii 



without dorsal fin. 

 Balaena gibbo unico prope caudam. Kle'm. M. P. 2. p, 12. 

 Balaena gibbis sex, balaena macra. Klein. M. P. 2. p, 13. 

 Knotenfisch oder Knobbelfisch. Anders, isL p. 225. Cranz. 



Groenl. p, 146. 



This species is a native of the northern seas, 

 and is said to be of the same general form with 

 the Great Whale, but of smaller size, and to 

 have the back furnished with one or more tu- 

 bercles: the variety Avith a single tubercle is 

 found about the coasts of New England : the 

 other, which has six tubercles along the back, is 

 supposed to occur about the coasts of Gi'eenland ; 

 but neither seem very accurately known : their 

 whalebone is said to be of a pale or whitish co- 

 lour. 



