Humpback whale, Megaptera novaeangliae, and fin whale, Balaenoptera physalus. Pike-headed mysticete, Balaena boops, and fin-backed mysticete, Balaena physalus. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by White from George Shaw’s General Zoology: Mammalia, Thomas Davison, London, 1801.

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