Orcal (orka)

whale: see orc.] In mammal., a genus of marine delphinoid odontocete cetaceans, containing the numerous species known as killers, sword - fish, or grampuses. They are remarkable for their strength, ferocity, and predatory habits, and are the only cetaceans which habitually prey upon warm-blooded animals, such as those of their own order. The teeth are about 48 in number, implanted all along the jaws; the vertebræ are 50-52, of which the cervicals are mostly free; the flippers are very large, and oval; the dorsal fin is high, erect, pointed, and situated about the middle of the body; and the head is obtusely rounded. [NL., American orioles, a near relative of the Baltimore oriole, and is sometimes called bastard Baltimore. It is very common in the United States in The male is seven inches long ten inches summer. orchestra IMG:content-1800.png:[merged small][merged small][ocr errors][merged small] spread of wings; the plumage is entirely 1, the panicle; 2, the lower part of the black and chestnut; plant; a, a spikelet; 6, the empty glumes; the female is some-c, the lower flowering glume; d, the palet. what smaller, and Orchard-gra ( Dactyl is glomerata ). plain olive and yellowish. The young male at first resembles the female, and during the progre to the perfect plumage shows every gradation between the colors of the two sexes.