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the pike Whale. 
body. When the integument is removed it is seen to be provided with only four fingers. The 
Latin specific name, longimana , signifies “ long-handed.” In color it is white. The dorsal 
fins are placed rather low, and behind the middle of the body. This Whale is always infested 
with sundry parasitic animals belonging to the genera Diadema and Otion. 
All the true carnivorous Whales are remarkable for the great proportionate size of the 
head. The Pike Whale, as may be seen from the illustration, belongs to this group of 
animals, and in some respects is not dissimilar to the Greenland Whale. 
This animal is, however, not nearly so large as the preceding, being only about twenty- 
five feet in length when adult. It is furnished with baleen, but the plates are comparatively 
short, and of a slight pinkish hue. The volume of the mouth is made up by a development of 
