. California fish and game. Fisheries -- California; Game and game-birds -- California; Fishes -- California; Animal Population Groups; Pêches; Gibier; Poissons. 214 CALIFORNIA FISH AND GAME feet in length. It is black above and white below. The dorsal fin is high and the vent is exactly below the hinder edge of the dorsal. There are thirty-eight to fifty-eight throat grooves. Balaenoptera davidsoni (Sharpheaded Finner). Scammon, Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci. 4, No. 20, Jan., 1873, pp. 269-270. This species is based on a single specimen. This was a female whale twenty-seven feet in length containing a
. California fish and game. Fisheries -- California; Game and game-birds -- California; Fishes -- California; Animal Population Groups; Pêches; Gibier; Poissons. 214 CALIFORNIA FISH AND GAME feet in length. It is black above and white below. The dorsal fin is high and the vent is exactly below the hinder edge of the dorsal. There are thirty-eight to fifty-eight throat grooves. Balaenoptera davidsoni (Sharpheaded Finner). Scammon, Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci. 4, No. 20, Jan., 1873, pp. 269-270. This species is based on a single specimen. This was a female whale twenty-seven feet in length containing a faetus of five feet six inches. The pectoral fins are pointed. The baleen is pure white. There is no other record that I knoAv of. Balaenoptera sulfureus (Pacific Sulphurbottora Whale). B. (Sihhaldius) sulphureus, Cope, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci., Phil., July, 1869. This species is based on some baleen and descriptions by Captain Scammon. It varies from B. sibbaldii only in a few color variations. The sulphurbottom or blue whale is the greatest of all whales and, as far as we know, the largest animal which has ever inhabited the earth. It has a world-wide distribution. It is occasionally taken by the steam whalers in California waters. It grows to a length of ninety-. FiG. 70. The sulphur bottom of the Pacific (Balaenoptera sulfureus). (After Scammon, Marine Mamm. pi. VIII.) five to one hundred feet. The predominating color is a dark bluish slate above and white and yellowish below. As the old time whalers regarded these whales as in the same fighting class as the finbacks, they were comparatively plentiful when the modern steam whalers began to work. A great number of them have been taken by the Norwegian companies in the last few years in the Pacific and Antarctic oceans. Summary. From a perusal of the literature and from personal field observations made at various times, it seems to me that the Ceteceans which can be included in the California fauna are as follows: Balaena aust
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