finbacks

You'll also see asymmetrically colored finbacks, curious minkes and endangered right whales.

Susan Fogwell: What to Do in Bar Harbor This Summer Susan Fogwell 2011

You'll also see asymmetrically colored finbacks, curious minkes and endangered right whales.

Susan Fogwell: What to Do in Bar Harbor This Summer Susan Fogwell 2011

These seafaring hippos then branched into the two superfamilies of the baleen whales (finbacks, blue whales) and the toothed whales (dolphins, porpoises). rdog29

Zimmer on whales - The Panda's Thumb 2005

He was moderate in his exactions from the Indians, requiring, as a tribute, only a tenth part of all the whales, grampusses, and finbacks, which might be taken by the inhabitants of the Island, together with all the porpoises caught in the Frog-Month.

Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 3 (of 3) James Athearn Jones

But those two over there -- the ones we're after, are finbacks.

The Boy With the U. S. Fisheries Francis Rolt-Wheeler 1918

Humpbacks an 'finbacks are taken for oil, an' they look quite different.

The Boy With the U. S. Fisheries Francis Rolt-Wheeler 1918

Even the humpbacks and common finbacks, both well known in Canadian waters, occasionally surpass the average size of sperms and 'rights.'

All Afloat A Chronicle of Craft and Waterways William Charles Henry Wood 1905

As we sailed farther north many a school of rolling finbacks glistened silver in the sun or rose higher than our masthead, when one took the death-leap to escape its leagued foes -- swordfish and thrasher and shark.

Heralds of Empire Being the Story of One Ramsay Stanhope, Lieutenant to Pierre Radisson in the Northern Fur Trade 1903

Coming back from the whale hunt, triumphant as if they had caught a dozen finbacks, the men erected a post, engraving on it the date, July 14, 1789, and the names of all present.

Pathfinders of the West Being the Thrilling Story of the Adventures of the Men Who Discovered the Great Northwest: Radisson, La Vérendrye, Lewis and Clark 1903

But for a whole week we saw nothing but a grampus or so, a few loitering finbacks, and an occasional lean humpback bull certainly not worth chasing.

The Cruise of the Cachalot Round the World After Sperm Whales Frank T. Bullen 1886