Class IV, BEAKED WHALE. S9 



five ; the riftus or gape very wide ; the tongue fif- 

 teen feet and a half long \ the mouth furnimed 

 with fhort whale-bone, about three feet in length. 

 On the forehead were two fpout holes of a pyrami- 

 dal form. 



The eyes were placed thirteen feet from the 

 end of the nofe : the pectoral fins ten feet long : 

 the back fin about three feet high, placed near the 

 tail, which was eighteen feet broad : the belly was . 

 full of folds. 



This fpecies is faid to feed on herrings. 



Burikopf. Marten's Spztzherg. tab. 14. 20. Beaked. 



1 24. Nebbe-haul, or beaked Whale, 

 Bottle-head, or Flounders- Pontop. Norway y I. 123. 



head. Dale Harwich, 411. 



'nr^HIS fpecies was taken near Maldon, i?ij> 

 •** and thus defcribed by Dale and Marten. 



The length was fourteen feet, the circumference 

 feven and an half; the body very thick, the fore- 

 head high, the nofe deprefTed, and of the fame 

 thicknefs its whole length, not unlike the beak of 

 a bird : in the mouth were no teeth. 



The eyes large, the eyelids fmall, and placed a 

 little above the line of the mouth. The fpout 

 hole was on the top of the head femi circular, with, 

 the corners pointed towards the tail. 



The pectoral fins were feven teen inches long. 



The 



