Class IV. PORPESSE. 



latter being quite another kind of fifh, the Cory- 

 phtena, Hippuris of Linnaus^ p. 446. and the Do- 

 rado of the PGrtuguefe, defcribed by Wilfaghty* p. 

 213. 



6 9 



Quxaiva. Arifi. hijt. an. Lib. Le Marfouin. Briffbn Cet. 



VI. c. 12. Turfio Flinii, 234. 



Lib. IX. c. 9. 

 Le Marfouin. Belon. 

 Turfio. Rondel. 474. Gefncr 



pifc. 711. 

 Porpeffe. Wil. lah. 31. Rail 



fyn.pifc. 13. Cramps Greenl. 



I. 114. Kolben's HiJ}. Cape, 



II. 200. 



Delphinus corpore fere coni- 

 formi, dorfo lato, roftro fu- 

 bacuto. Arted. fynon. 104. 



Delphinus Phocxna. Lin. jyji. 

 108. 



Marfwin, Tumblare. Faun* 

 Suec. No. ci. 



25. PoR« 



FESSE. 



THESE fifh are found in vail multitudes in 

 all parts of the fea that wafh thefe iflands, 

 but in greater!: numbers at the time when fifh of 

 paflage appear, fuch as mackrel, herrings, and 

 falmon, which they purfue up the bays with the 

 fame eagernels as a pack of dogs does a hare. In 

 fome places they almoft darken the fea as they 

 rife above water to take breath : but porpeffes not 

 only feek for prey near the fnrface, but often 

 defcend to the bottom in fearch _of fand eels, and 

 fea worms, which they root out of the fand with 

 their nofes in the fame manner as hogs do in the 

 fields for their food. 



Their bodies are very thick towards the head, 

 F 3 but 



Descrip. 



