1. CATODON. 



203 



Physeter o-ibbosus, Schrob. Sdmjeth. t. 338; Johnston, Pise. 215 t 41 

 %rhj' ^"I'i'- *• ^2, copied Brandt Sc llatz. Med. Zool. t. 12 'f '20* 

 ndhKjhh. leldh. t. A 1. f. 3. ' 



AT'u^^''^/H^''"'^'° ^'''''''°' ^°''<^^ S'^''*- Teignmouth (Gesner, 1532) 

 A\ hitstable Euy, 1794. Scotland (6VW>«W, Robertson). Greenland 

 V/-7 '^'** ^«:)-j;°^ England, nine mouths of the year (Dudleu, 

 riul. Irons. 1. 132), -i \ j> 



a. Skull. North Sea. 



Length, entire I79 j^ches. 



Length of beak 127 



Width at notch (37 



Width at middle of beak 52 '' 



The beak is not quite twice the length of the breadth at the notch 

 and more than two-thirds the length of the entire head. 

 This specimen is figured, Cuv. Oss. Poss. v. 6. 24. f. 1-5. 



/'. Lower jaw. Indian Seas. Presented by Colonel Cobb. 

 e. Lower jaw of young. 



d. Lower jaw bent and distorted in front. 



b. c. d. 



_ in. in. in. 



Entire length 157 92 51 



Length of teeth -groove .... . . 29 



Length of symphysis ... . 85 44 21 ^ 



Teeth on each side 23 21 19^ 



Width at condyle . . 31 



The lower jaw appears to increase in length in front, for in the 

 older spe^cimeus the symphysis is more, and in tlie younger ones less 

 than half the entire length of the jaw. ' 



e, f. Teeth, various. 

 ij. Section of a tooth. 



The Spermaceti A\Tiale frequently comes ashore in Orkney • one 

 was caught at Hoy, 50 feet long (" Lowe," Plem. B. A. 29) 



A male, 52 feet long, with a dorsal fin, was found at Limekilns 

 in the Forth, m Feb. 1689, and described by Sibbald (Phal. 33 t 1)' 



After a hard gale of wind northerly, no less than twelve male 

 whales, which undoubtedly came out of the Northern Ocean were 

 towed and dnvcn on shore, all dead and in a high state of putrefac- 

 tion, exceptmg one ; six were found upon the coast of Kent, two on 

 the coast of HoUand. One at the Hope Point, in the Pivcr Thames 

 was the only one seen alive ; he ran aground and smothered himself 

 in the mud, and was afterwards made a show of in the Greenland 

 Docks. {Letter from Waldenvick, on the eoast of Suffolk, 7th March 

 1/88, m Sir Joseph Banks's copy of Phil. Trans, in B. M Hbrarv ) 



Whitstable, Kent, Feb. 16, 1829. A male, 62 feet long and 16 l^et 

 high. " It was purchased by Messrs. Enderby and Sturo-e Avho 

 erected coppers on the beach and coUected the oil. They iirescntcd 

 the skeleton, which had been prepai-ed by Mr. J. Gould to the 



