PHOCAENA. 317 



Monodon imonoceros. 



Monodon monoceros, Linnaeus Syst. Nat., 12th ed., i, p. 105 (1766) ; Blyth 

 Cat. no. 276, p. 90 ; Flower P. Z. S , 1883, p. 504 ; id. List Cetacea B. M., 

 p. 14. 



The Narwhal. 



Distribution. — Arctic Seas, north of 65° N. lat. 



a. Skelet. mtd. Lincaster Sound (Capt. Dundee Mus. [Ex.] 

 McLennan in Steam- 

 whaler Narwhal, 7-76). 



i. Tooth Capt. Lumsden, 1820, 



A.S.B. 



Genus DELPHINAPTERUS. 



Delphinapterus, Lacepede Hist. Nat. Cetaces Tabl. des Ord., p. xli (1804)*. 

 Beluga, Gray Spiceleg. Zool., p. 2 (1828). 



Delphinapterus leucas. 



Delphinus leucas, Pallas Reise, iii, p. 85 (1776)*. 

 Balaena albicans, O. F. MUller Zool. Dan. Prodr,, p. 7 (1776)*. 

 Delphinapterus beluga, Lacepede Hist. Not. Cetaces, p. 243 (1804)*. 

 Beluga catodon. Gray Zool. Ereb. & Terr., p. 29 (1846) ; Blyth Cat. no. 



275, p. 90. 

 Delphinapterus leucas, F/oOT^r P.Z.S., p. 505 (1883); id. List Cetacea 



B. M., p. 14. 



The White Whale. 



Distribution. — Arctic Seas and perhaps the Australian coasts 

 (Delphinus kingi of Gray). 



a. Skull Greenland Copenhagen Mus., 1840, A.S.B^- ^ 



Genus PHOCAENA. 



FhocdLeaa, G, Cuvier Regne Anim.,isted.,i, p. 2-jg {1817). 



■4.- ■ liil^U -'.:.! ^- 



Phocaena communis. 



Delphinus phocaena, Linnaeus Syst. Nat., 12th ed^, i, p. 108 (1766). 

 Phocaena communis, Lesson Man. Mamm., p. 413 (1827); Blyth Cat. no. 271, , 

 p. 88; Flower P. Z. S., 1883, p. 505; id. List Cetacea B. M., p. 15. 



Distribution. — Coasts of the North Atlantic, both European and 

 American, the species found in the North Pacific is probably dis: 



a-6. 2 Skulls Greenland' Copenhagen Mus. [Ex.] -"-J 



- ■' - A.S.B. 



c. Skeleton Christiania Univ., A.S.B. 



