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body appears above water. It inhabits the open seas, 

 and is consequently captured with extreme difficulty. 

 Its flesh has been eaten in the same way as the porpoise, 

 but now is disused. 



GENUS VII. 



HYPEROODON. 



SPECIES. 



HYPEROODON BUTSKOPF, vel DELPHINUS DEDUCTOR, 

 THE BOTTLE-NOSED, OR CA'ING WHALE.* 



Dr. Traill, one of the Professors in the University 

 of Edinburgh, has ably described this species of the 

 Genus Delphinus, and which was considered as a new 

 species of whale by this gentleman. Ninety-two of them 

 were stranded in Scalpay Bay, in Pomona, one of the 

 Orkney Islands, a few days prior to the great storm in 

 December, 180G. On the 21st of February, 1805, one 

 hundred and ninety of these animals, varying in length 

 from six to twenty-four feet long, were forced ashore in 

 Uyea Sound Unst, West Shetland; on the 19th of 



Svnonymes. — Delphinus Orca, (Butskopf), Linn. Butskopf, Martin. 

 Bottle-head or Flounder' s-head, Dale. Ncbba Hual, Pontopp. Norway. 

 Beaked Whale, Pennant. Dauphin Butskopf, Bonnaterre. Hyperoodofl 

 Butskopf, La Cepede. The Cains- Whale of the Shetland and Orkney 

 Islands. 



