...length. The head is not so plane as in the Caribbean species, and the sides less angulated. The length from the tip of the lower jaw to the end of the bony operculum constitutes more than a fifth (21-100) of the total. Its height between the crown and...

...two-thirds of the greatest height, or 6-100 of the length. The head is acutely conical and elongated ; from the tip of the lower jaw to the end of the bony operculnm it forms a sixth (17-100) of the entire length ; from the front of the upper jaw to...

...huge creature. The length of the animal, he said, measured from the tip of the lower jaw to the'end of the tail, 78 feet 9 inches. The girth of the body,...flipper, was 45 feet. Its girth, in line with the oval orifice, was 28 feet, whilst around the root of the tail it was only 7 feet 6 inches. The inner...

...species as the Longniddry whale. baldii of Gray. The length, measured along the curvature of the back, from the tip of the lower jaw to the end of the tail, was 78 feet 9 in. From the non-union of the disk-like epiphyses of the bodies of the thoracic and lumbar...

...Flower of a large adult male which was stranded in Pevensey Bay, Sussex, in November, 1865. Its length from the tip of the lower jaw to the end of the tail was 67 feet, the measurement being taken in a straight line. In 1862 an individual was seen in the...

...Flower of a large adult male which was stranded in Pevensey Bay, Sussex, in November, 1865. Its length from the tip of the lower jaw to the end of the tail was 67 feet, the measurement being taken in a straight line. In 1862 an individual was seen in the...

...4 times; the eye is placed midway between the margin of the operculum and the tip of the lower jaw. From the tip of the lower jaw to the end of the upper jaw, or snout, the distance is equal to the height of the head. The maxillary extends beyond...

...which weighed 28 pounds and measured 1.140 millimeters between the pectorals and 1.080 millimeters from the tip of the lower jaw to the end of the tail Unfortunately this latter measurement could not be made on the adult because the greater part of the...

...co-operation of his assistant Mr Stirling, and his pupils Mr Millen Coughtrey, and Mr James Fouliu. the rocks and shoals, where it was left as the tide...inner surface of the lower jaw, close to its upper and outer border, was concave, and sloped inwards so as to admit the edge of the upper jaw within it....

...also impossible to skin. Later, when its movement had ceased, the hunter would remove the belly skin from the tip of the lower jaw to the end of the tail, using a sharp knife to separate the hide from the flesh. When the procedure was finished, the skin...