. The marine mammals of the north-western coast of North America, described and illustrated; together with an account of the American whale-fishery. hwhich has been found in them is truly enormous. On the northern coast, theFinbacks, in many instances, have a much larger fin than those in warmer lati-tudes, and we are fully satisfied that these are a distinct species, confined to thenorthern waters. We have had but little opportunity to observe the Finbacks that frequentlyrove about the Gulf of Georgia and Fuca Strait. Several have been seen, however,in May and June, on the coasts of Californi
. The marine mammals of the north-western coast of North America, described and illustrated; together with an account of the American whale-fishery. hwhich has been found in them is truly enormous. On the northern coast, theFinbacks, in many instances, have a much larger fin than those in warmer lati-tudes, and we are fully satisfied that these are a distinct species, confined to thenorthern waters. We have had but little opportunity to observe the Finbacks that frequentlyrove about the Gulf of Georgia and Fuca Strait. Several have been seen, however,in May and June, on the coasts of California and Oregon, and in Fuca Strait inJune and July of the year 1864 ; these observations satisfy us that the dorsal finof this—the northern species referred to — is strikingly larger than in the moresouthern Finbacks. Appended are the outlines of one individual of several seen in Queen CharlotteSound, in February, 1865, which is a fair representation of them all. Those wehave noticed about Fuca Strait seem to have the back fin modified in size betweenthe extremely small one found on the coast of Lower California and the one THE FINBACK WHALE. 37 rw o o » ? aw CO >n
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