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The Scottish Naturalist 



Nos. 85 AND 86.] 1919 [Jan.-Feb. 



ON WHALES LANDED AT THE SCOTTISH 

 WHALING STATIONS, ESPECIALLY DURING 

 THE YEARS 1908-1914 Parts IV. to VI. The 



BOTTLENOSE, HUMPBACK, AND FiNNER WHALES. 



By D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson. 



{Continued ffotn " T/ie Scoff ish Nafittalisf^'' 1918, page 237.) 



IV. The Bottlenose-WHALE {Hyperoodon roslmtus, auctt.). 



This small whale is probably that of all others which is 

 oftenest cast ashore on our own coasts. It is without doubt 

 plentiful on our whaling-grounds ; and in the North Atlantic 

 it has been the object of a not unimportant Norwegian,^ and 

 at times Scottish, fishery, especially to the north of Faroe, 

 north-east of Iceland towards Jan Mayen, and up to the 

 verge of the Arctic ice-field.- It was hunted partly for its 

 oil, which is of fine quality and hardly distinguishable (if at 

 all) from sperm ; for its spermaceti, which substance again it 

 yields in common with the sperm-whale ; partly also, I have 

 been told (though I cannot vouch for it), for its skin, which is 

 said to make good leather, like that of the Beluga ; and partly, 

 it is also said, for the sake of the ambergris, or a variety 



1 In 1886, for instance, the Norwegians took 131 1 Bottlenose-whales 

 (T. Southwell, Zoologist {i), xii., p. 126, 1888). 



- .See Chart in Hjort's Fisken tg fhialfangst., 1902, p. 192. 

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