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the Southern Whale, has shown that this is the case. Wishing to 

 call attention to this subject for future examination, I may observe 

 that Beale (N, H. Sperm Whale, 22. f. 1, 14) describes' the Southern 

 Sperm Whale as grey. Female one-fifth the size and bulk of the 

 males, more slender and large in proportion. Young black, skin 

 thicker. Varies sometimes in being black and grey mottled. 



Quoy gives an engraving of a drawing of a Sperm Whale, which 

 was given him by an English captain, which is probably the Southern 

 Whale. He calls it Fhyseter pohjciiplms (and Desmoulins renames it 

 P. australis), because its back appears to be broken into a series of 

 humps by cross ridges. In this particular it agrees with the Scrag 

 ^VTiale of Dudley (on which Bonnaterre established his BaJcena qib- 

 hosa) ; but it cannot be that animal, as Dudley says it is a Whalebone 

 Whale. Quoy's figure differs from Bcale's in being much longer; 

 but, as Beale observes, when speaking of the figures of the Northern 

 kind, this is the common fault of all the drawings of the Sperm 

 Whales. 



Dr. Jackson observes — " The dorsal fin or hump forms a very 

 obtuse angle, and is ill-defined, being (in a space 16 feet long) about 

 10 inches in length and 2 or 3 inches high ;" there being, he further 

 remarks, " also between it and the caudal two or three quite small 

 finlets " (Boston Journ. N. H. v. 137). These latter are, perhaps, 

 what are represented as humps in Quoy's figure of G. pohjcyplius. 



The figure of the Sperm Whale in Duhamel, Peches, iv. t. 15. f. 3, is 

 good for the form and blower, and has the " taquet " marked; but a 

 fin has been added below, between the vent and tail, in the position 

 of the anal fins of fishes (!), in t. 9.'f. 1. This author has figured and 

 described Orca gladiator for the Sperm Whale (!). . 



Bonnaterre's figure (E. M. t. 7. f. 2) of the Grand Cachalot taken 

 at Andiene, 1784, and copied by Lacepcde, t. 10. f. 1, is not so bad 

 for form, but has a fin instead of a hump on the back. 



The figure of the Spermaceti Whale from the coast of Kent, 1794, 

 in the Gent. Mag. t. 1, is very inaccurate, especially respecting the 

 tail. 



It is to be remarked that all the older writers only describe this 

 animal as occurring in the Northern seas, and Robertson and Fabri- 

 cius described it as black when young, becoming whitish below. 



AU the figures, except Anderson's, are, by the unanimous expe- 

 rience of the whalers, far too long for the thickness ; and Anderson's 

 scarcely represents the " bunch " sufficiently prominent, and erro- 

 neously represents the blower on the wrong part of the head. 



Sperm Whales are infested with small lice {Larunda Ceti) and 

 species of barnacles (as Otion Cavieri), which usually adhere in 

 clusters to the integiiment around the jaws. (See Bennett, I. c. 169 ; 

 Beale, Hist. Sperm Whale.) 



Beale (Hist. Sperm Whale, 8vo, 1839) and Bennett (Narrat. 

 WhaUng Voyage, 1840, 8vo, ii. 153) give a long account of the 

 habits, the mode of catching, &c. of the South-Sea Sperm Whale. 



Colnet, in his ' Voyage,' p. 80. f. 9 (copied by Brandt and Eatze- 

 burg, 1. 14. f. 3), gives a very good' figure of a Sperm Whale, 15 feet 



