WHALE. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Horny laminae in the upper jaw, instead of teeth. Spiracle 
with a double external orifice on the top of the head. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Bal^ena Mysticetus. B. naribus flexuosis in medio anteriore 
capite, dorso impenni. Linn. Syst. 
Nat. Gmel. 1 . p. 223. 
With flexuous spiracles on the middle of 
the head, and finless back. 
Baetena grcenlandica. Fistula duplici 
in fronte, maxilla inferiore multa la- 
tiore. Linn. Mus. Ad. Frid. 1 . p. 51. 
Wall-fish. Mart. Spitxb. p. 98. pi. 9 . 
Common Whale. . Penn. Brit. Zool. 3. p. 50. no. 16. Shaw 
Gen. Zool. 2. p. 4^8. pi. 226. 
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This species of whale, which is destitute of teeth, 
is supposed to feed on the different kinds of marine 
worms, and likewise on sea weeds. For the pur- 
pose of collecting these different sorts of nourish- 
ment, there is in the upper jaw a number of horny 
