56 PIKE-HEADED WHALE. Class IV. 



taken on our coafts, but when it was accidentally 

 flung afhore : it was then deemed a royal fifti*, 

 and the king and queen divided the fpoil; the 

 king afferting his right to the head, her majefty to 

 the tail +. 



17. Pike- Balaena tripinnis nares habens La Baleine a mufeau pointu. 



headed. cum rollro acuto, et plicis Brijjbn Cet. 224. 



in ventre. Sib. Phalain 29. Balcena fiftula duplici inroftro, 



tab. 1 . dorfo extremo protuberantia 



Idem. Raii fyn. pifc. 16. cornuiformi. Arted. fyn+ 



Pike-headed Whale. Dak 107. 



Harwich, 410. No. 3. Balama Boops. Lin. Jyji. 106. 



Size. f~T^HE length of that taken on the coaft of Scot- 

 JL land^ as remarked by Sir Robert Sibbald, 

 was forty- fix feet, and its greateft circumference 

 twenty. 

 Descrip. The head of an oblong form, floping down, and 

 growing narrower to the nofe; fix feet eight inches 

 from the end of which were two fpout-holes, fepa- 

 rated by a thin divifion : the eyes fmall. 



The pectoral fins five feet long, and one and a 

 half broad : on the back, about eight feet and an 

 half from the tail, in lieu of a back fin, was a 

 hard horny protuberance : the tail was nine feet 

 and a half broad. 



* Item habet warecrum maris per totum regnum Ballenas 

 et Slurgiofies captos, Sec. Eclvoardi II. anno ljmo. 

 f Blackflone 's Com, I. c. 4, 



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