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glia, Briss. Regn. Anim. p. 360. No. 3. Dudley, 

 Philos. Trans. No. 357. Robertson, Trans. Philos. 

 vol. 60. Blunt headed^ Penn. Zool. Britan. vol. 

 3. p. 61. Physeter macrocephalus, Var. y. Linn. 

 Gmel. Cachalot trumpo, Bonnaterre, Cetolog. 

 p. 14, No. 3. Lacep. Hist. Nat. des Cetacees, p. 

 210, pi. 10. fig. 2. 



Char. Essent. Head longer than the body; 

 inferior teeth, straight and pointed, eighteen on 

 each side, penetrating as many alveoles on the 

 opposing jaw ; bod}" and tail elongated ; a rounded 

 eminence rather beyond the origin of the tail. 



Dimensions. This species attains to fifty feet 

 in length ; twenty-seven feet in circumference. 



(M. Cuvier is of the opinion that this species 

 is the same as the preceding.) 



Inhabiting the coasts of Bermuda and North 

 America. 



Several other species are noticed by Desmarest. 

 Mamm. p. 525 and 526, as frequenting the north- 

 ern Atlantic coasts, viz. 1. Physeter catodon ; 2. 

 P. cylindricus ; 3. P. microps ; 4. P. othodon ; 

 5. P. midar ; but as there exists some doubt as to 

 their identity, we have briefly noticed them, and 

 refer to Bonn. Cetolog. Loc. Cit. for further detail. 



Genus. 

 BaliEna, Willughby, Rai. Artedi, Linn. Briss. 

 Klein. Erxleb. Gmel. Bonn. Lacep. Cuv. Illig. 

 Physeter, Willugh. 



