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character. Of the eleven ribs six have two heads. 

 There are fourteen lumbars and twenty-two caudals. 

 In the older specimen there are altogether forty-one 

 lumbo-caudals. 



The phalanges in digits II and III of the embryo 

 may reach so high a number as twenty-seven and 

 twelve respectively. The formation therefore of a 

 species (G. propinquus, Malm) upon a fcetus with a 

 greater number of phalanges than the adult G. me/as 

 is not permissible. The fcetus has a few hairs, four 

 or five. 



All of the seven following names are to be looked 

 upon as synonyms : Globicephalus svineval, Gray ; 

 G. affinis, Id. ; G. edwardsi, Smith ; G. incrassatus, 

 Gray ; Delphinus inter me dius, Harlan ; D. deductor, 

 Scoresby ; D. globiccps. Cuvier. 



This whale has been largely fished in the Faroe 

 Islands. Mr. H. C. M tiller, a native of those islands, 

 has recently gone into the matter and collected a large 

 amount of information, which is here partly abstracted. 

 It appears that the earliest date concerning the 

 appearance of these whales was in the year 1584. 

 The animal is spoken of as " Grindehval," a herd 

 being: termed "Grind/ which signifies lattice work. 



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Its application to the whales is apparently the placing 

 of a line of boats across the mouth of a bay where 

 a herd of the Cetaceans has run toward the shore. 

 The results of the fisheries have fluctuated much in 

 the period of years from the date already mentioned. 

 The whales are hunted and captured in the follow- 

 ing manner. When a herd is discovered a piece of 



