There was no other whale in sight; but this was a big fellow—a right whale, or baleener.
This is a smooth, slim fish—smaller usually than a right whale.
His head and mouth are of the same construction with those of the right whale.
The oil obtained from him is of the same quality as the right whale oil.
Whalemen have always been puzzled as to the place of breeding for the right whale.
The right whale can be attacked only "head on," as they throw their flukes from side to side.
All the bays and harbours which have been just described, abound with right whale at a particular season of the year.
The narwhal and the white whale are hunted in the same way as the walrus and the right whale.
At the same place a portion of the palate-bone of a whale (right whale) was found at an elevation of 150 feet.
Balna, the genus which includes the Greenland or right whale, type of the family Balnid, or whale-bone whales.