HYPEROODON DESMARESTII. 155 



middle of the body, but little elevated, lanceolate, pointed, 

 directed backwards ; pectorals small, oval, in the same 

 horizontal line with that of the mouth ; skin smooth and 

 glossy ; blackish lead colour above, whitish beneath, the 

 two colours intermixing on the sides. 



Entire length, from 20 to 25 feet. 



Two indi\dduals of this species were taken near Honfleur, 

 in France, in 1788. Two more have been stranded near 

 Caen, one of them in 1842, the skeletons of which are in 

 the Paris and Caen museums. One was taken on the 

 Dutch coast in July 1846. The Bottle-head has been 

 taken a few times on the east coast of England, and more 

 frequently on the north-east coast of Ireland. In the 

 'Illustrated London News' of February 17, 1855, is an 

 account of an individual taken a short time previously in 

 Solway Frith, which measured 25 feet in length, Avith a 

 girth of 16 feet. 



Hyperoodon Desmavestii. 



Delphinus Sowcrhyi, DeSxM. Mamm. Sp. 785. 



Hyperoodon Desmarestii, Gray, Cat. Brit. Mus. Cetacea, p. 69. 



Deljphinus Desmarestii, Kisso, F. Cuvier. 



Ziphius cavirosfris, G-ervais, Zool. et Paleont. Franc. toI. i. p. 154. 



Diodon Sowerbcei, Bell, Brit. Quad. 



Description. — The two teeth of the lower jaw large and 

 conical, nicked near the tip ; head not swollen, ending in 

 a long nose; upper jaw shorter, toothless; lower much 

 longer, and bent up ; eyes small, oval ; blowers large, 

 semilunar; pectoral fins short, dorsal rather beyond the 

 middle of the back, nearly above the vent ; caudal fin 

 broad, festooned. 



Length, nearly 16 feet. 



" Differs from the last species in the forehead not being 

 swollen, and in the lower jaw being produced and bent up, 



