202 CATODONTID^. 



long, from measurements ; with details of tlie manner of flenching 

 or peeling it. His figure agrees with Beale's in proportions. It was 

 caught in the North Pacific, near Point Angles, on the coast of 

 Mexico. This figure escaped Cuvier's researches. 



Purchas says the Sperm Whale is found at Bermuda, where it is 

 called Trumpo, a name which Lacepede applied to the Northern 

 animal. An anonymous writer in the ' Philosophical Transactions,' 

 i. 132, and Dudley, describe them as found on the east coast of North 

 America. 



The Japanese distinguish three varieties of this animal, according 

 to their size. They Hve in herds on the Japanese coast. — Faun. 

 Japon. 



A whalers tooth is highly prized in Fiji, being used in augury by 

 the priests, and was formerly a sort of currency. — Bensusan, Journ. 

 Roy. Qeorjr. Soc. 1862, 48. 



" The crown jewels of Viti were kept in a wooden box, in charge 

 of the widow of the late Governor of Namose : first, there was a 

 necklace of whale's teeth, the first that ever came to the mountain ; 

 secondly, a largo whale's tooth, highly polished, and carefully wrapped 

 up in cocoa-nut fibre (whale's teeth are in Fiji what diamonds are 

 with us) ; thirdly, a cannibal's foot, in the shape of a club, and bear- 

 ing the name of Strike twice, i. e. fii'st the man and then his flesh." 

 — Seemann, Journ. Roy. Geogr. Soc. 1862, 62. 



1. Catodon macrocephalus. The Northern Sperm Whale. 



Black, becoming whitish below. 



Trumpo, rhil. Trans, i. 132. 



Catodon Trumpo, Gerard, Diet. Sci. Ned, vi. 57; Laccp. Cet. 212. 



t. 10. f. 2. 

 De Balnsna niacrocephala qute binas tantum pinnas laterales liabet, 



Sibhald, Phul. 12. 

 Balajna major in inferiors tantum maxilla dentata macrocephala 



bipinnis, Raii Pise. 15. 

 Cetus bipinnis supra niger, etc., Brisson, Cete, 357. 

 Catodon fistula in cervice, Artedi, Syn. 

 Catodon macrocephalus, Lacep. Cet. 1. 10. f. 1 ; Gray, Cat. Cetac. B.M. 



1850, 49 ; Proc. Zool, Soc. 18G3 ; 1864, 231. 

 Sperm Whale, Anderson, Camhridye Plnl. Ti'ans. ii. 250. t. 12 (view of 



animal), 1. 13 (cranium and lower jaw), t. 14 (side view of bead) ; 



Jackson, Boston Journ. N. H. v. 137. t. 14 (stomach). 

 Spennaceti Whale, Dudlei/, Phil. Trans, xxxii. 258 ; Gent. 3fay. 1794, 



3.3. 1. 1. 

 Blunt-bead Cachalot, Robertson, Phil. Trans. Ix. t. 

 I'hyseter Catodon, O. Fahr. Faun. Grcenl. 44, and Robertson, not Linn. ; 



T. Thompson, Mag. N. Hist. 1829, ii. 471. f. 114 (bad), 

 rhyseter Trumpo, Bonnat. Cetac. t. 8. f. 1, from Robertson, copied 



Reichenb. Cetac. t. 4. f. 12 (anat. t. 10) ; Fischer, Syn. Mamtn. 518. 

 Physeter macrocephalus, Linn. S. N. i. l07 ; O. Fabr. Faun. Grcenl. 41 ; 



Shatv, Zool. ii. 497. t. 228 ; Reichenb. Cetac. 4. t. 4. f. 11 ; Schreb. 



Savgcth. t. 337 a $ , t. 337 /3 ? ; Gossc, Jamaica, 349; Turton, Fauna, 



\Q{ Jenyns, Man. 44; Bell, Brit. Qucul. 506. f. 511. 

 Cetus macrocephalus, Okcn, Lchrb. Nat. 675. 



