"What's the difference between a 'finback' and a 'humpback,' Hank?" asked the boy, after the canvas had been stowed, the vessel under auxiliary steam having speed enough to keep up with the cetaceans, "are they 'right' whales?".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Boy With the U. S. Fisheries] Reference

A kind of finback, an 'is the largest animal livin'.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Boy With the U. S. Fisheries] Reference

He now frequently demanded the half of a whale instead of a tenth, or took, without asking, the whole of a grampus or finback.    From Wordnik.com.  [Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 3 (of 3)] Reference

Inspired by Pluvialis' post on the finback whale skeleton exhibited at Cambridge, I took this picture of a blue whale mounted in front of the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-07-01] Reference

The park is a great place to whale watch, especially between February and April, and several kinds of whale are frequently seen in these waters, including the blue, humpback, finback, pilot, and the occasional gray whale.    From Wordnik.com.  [Loreto and San Javier: From Sun, Sand and Snorkeling to Museums, Missions and Mountains.] Reference

The more common marine mammals that can be observed from the park, albeit with a diminishing frequency in recent years include pilot whale Globicephala melaena, minke whale Balaenoptera autorostrata, finback whale B. physalus (V) and harbour seals Phoca vitulina.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gros Morne National Park, Canada] Reference

He frequently directed them to a fine school of black-fish, or bade them see whales, or man their canoes for the chase of the finback; he told them when to plant and gather in their corn, and foretold to them the approach of storms with an accuracy productive of the greatest advantages to them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 3 (of 3)] Reference

"Tis a finback!" exclaimed the lieutenant; "he will soon make headway, and be off.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pilot] Reference

The haul of minke whales and a single finback was well down on last year's catch of 680.    From Wordnik.com.  [EcoEarth.Info Environment RSS Newsfeed] Reference

Now, a finback is built more for speed an 'has a big fin on the back -- that's where it gets its name.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Boy With the U. S. Fisheries] Reference

Another large finback surfaced next to the boat, blowing mist all over the passengers, to their delight.    From Wordnik.com.  [BangorDailyNews.com > News] Reference

From which lucid narration I gathered that the finback had himself to thank for his immunity from pursuit.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cruise of the Cachalot Round the World After Sperm Whales] Reference

It is possible that in cruising after sperms they may go a little out of their way to take a finback or two.    From Wordnik.com.  [Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon] Reference

Sarah Sharp of International Fund for Animal Welfare's marine mammal rescue team said the whale is a young finback species.    From Wordnik.com.  [Home - BostonHerald.com] Reference

This freshwater bivalve is on the endangered list in Connecticut, along with the piping plover, tiger beetle and finback whale.    From Wordnik.com.  [News from www.rep-am.com] Reference

Owing to the approaching darkness, there was no time to wait for an exact shot, and Hank fired at the big finback on the first opportunity.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Boy With the U. S. Fisheries] Reference

Then when the whales were sighted, I also had bad luck getting a decent shot … until a mother finback and her calf came up very near the boat.    From Wordnik.com.  [mainely stitching] Reference

This crest is usually some bird, or fish, or animal; particularly the eagle, the raven, the finback whale, the grisly bear, the wolf, and the frog.    From Wordnik.com.  [Metlakahtla and the North Pacific Mission] Reference

The latter, however, though they will travel in company with the flying finback and the timid humpback and "right" whale, has no fear of the killers.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Memory Of The Southern Seas 1904] Reference

I wonder at any whaling vessel coming out of their way after this species, for I have always heard from whalers that the finback is not worth hunting.    From Wordnik.com.  [Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon] Reference

There are five different kinds of whale: the sperm, the right, the humpback, the finback, and the sulphur bottom, of which but three are much caught, the sperm, the right and the humpback.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of John Thompson, a Fugitive Slave; Containing His History of 25 Years in Bondage, and His Providential Escape. Written by Himself.] Reference

Scientists are eager to examine the animal, which they first believed might be the humpback whale rescued from a tangle of fishing lines earlier this week, but later identified as a minke or finback whale.    From Wordnik.com.  [Projo.com Projo Local News] Reference

Compared to the excitement of the chase in the open boat this seemed very tame to Colin, and he said so to the captain, when he went aft, while the steam-winch gradually drew up the finback whose end had come so suddenly.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Boy With the U. S. Fisheries] Reference

Blue Ocean Society for Marine Conservation will invite families to discover more about the ocean by walking inside an inflatable life-size finback whale and having the opportunity to hold real live sea creatures in special touch trays.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marketwire - Breaking News Releases] Reference

Had that finback attempted to play about a passenger ship in such a fashion, all the loungers on board would have been popping at him with their revolvers and rifles without ever a thought of compunction; yet here, in a vessel whose errand was whale-fishing.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cruise of the Cachalot Round the World After Sperm Whales] Reference

The finback, however, swift and lengthy as he is, seldom manages to escape once he is "bailed up," and having no weapon of defence except his flukes (for he is one of the baleen or toothless whales), he has but one chance of his life, and that is to dive to such.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Memory Of The Southern Seas 1904] Reference

"A finback, I think," replied Weymouth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Left on Labrador or, The cruise of the Schooner-yacht 'Curlew.' as Recorded by 'Wash.'] Reference

Gray finback whales flounder in schools.    From Wordnik.com.  [Canada: the Empire of the North Being the Romantic Story of the New Dominion's Growth from Colony to Kingdom] Reference

W'en I uz young 'n foolish, a finback range.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cruise of the Cachalot Round the World After Sperm Whales] Reference

Stranded finback whale in Eastham has died.    From Wordnik.com.  [Home - BostonHerald.com] Reference

'Twas a finback whale.    From Wordnik.com.  [Heralds of Empire Being the Story of One Ramsay Stanhope, Lieutenant to Pierre Radisson in the Northern Fur Trade] Reference