The scapula is more like that of the Rorquals than that of the Right Whales; {362} that is to say, it is long and not very high.
The Right Whales of the genus Balaena are to be distinguished from Neobalaena and from the Rorquals by the following characters:-- The size is large, 50 to 60 feet.
The ulna and radius in the rorquals are also comparatively longer than in the baleen whales.
In the skull, the supraorbital processes of the frontals are broader in the rorquals than in others, and the olfactory fossa is less elongated.
A dorsal fin is present in the rorqualsbut absent in right whales.
Humpback whales distinguish themselves from the remainder of the rorquals by their habit of raising the flukes high into the air when starting a long dive.
Features by which it may be distinguished from all other rorquals are discussed in the species account.
In Bryde's whale, the single head ridge characteristic of the other rorquals is supplemented by two auxiliary ridges, one on each side of the main ridge.
The pigmy whale (Neobalaena marginata) represents a genus agreeing with the right-whales in the absence of throat-flutings, and with the rorquals in the presence of a dorsal fin.
These finners orrorquals are enormous mammals, and on one occasion we were followed by one for several hours.
In the Rorquals (Balaenoptera) however, the cervical vertebrae are quite separate and distinct (fig.
The cervical vertebrae of Rorquals give off on each side two transverse processes (fig.
Two rorquals were rising close to Hut Point this morning--although the ice is nowhere thick it was strange to see them making for the open leads and thin places to blow.
We have seen a good many whales to-day, rorquals with high black spouts--Balænoptera Sibbaldi.
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