202 CATODONTID.^. 



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

 or peeling it. His figure agi-ees with Eeale'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 live in herds on the Japanese coast. — Faun. 

 Jupon. 



A whale's tooth is highly prized in Fiji, being used in augury by 

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

 Roy. Oeogr. 8oc. 1862, 48. 



" The crovni 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 large 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 StriTce twice, i. e. first the man and then his flesh." 

 — Seemann, Journ. Boy. Geogr. Sac. 1862, 62. 



1. Catodon macrocephalus. The Northern Sperm Whale. 



Black, becoming whitish below. 



• Trumpo, Phil. Trans, i. 132. 



Catodon Trumpo, Gerard, Diet. Set. Nat, vi. 57; Lacep. Cet. 212. 



t. 10. f. 2. 

 l)e BaLiena macrocephala quae binas tantum pinnas laterales habet, 



Sibbakl, Bud. 12. 

 Balsena major in inferiore tantum maxiUa dentata macrocephala 



bipiunis, Haii 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 ; 1804, 281. 

 Sperm AVliale, Anderson, Camhridye Pliil. Travis, ii. 250. t. 12 (view of 



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



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

 Spemaaceti Whale, Dudley, Phil. Trans, xxxii. 258 ; Gent. May. 1794, 



33. t, 1. 

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

 Physeter Catodon, O. Fabr. Faun. Gra-nl. 44, aiid liobertson, not Linn- ; 



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

 Pliyseter Trumpo, Bonnat. Ceiac. t. 8. f. 1, from Robertson, copied 



Reichenb. Cetac. t. 4. f. 12 (anat. t. 10) ; Fi'scher, Syn. Mamm. 518. 

 rhYseterniacrocephahis,i/«M. S. N. i. l07 ; O. Fabr. Faun. Granl. 41 ; 



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



SiivqetJi. t. 337 a 5 , t. 337 ^ ^ • Gossc, Jamaica, 349; Turton, Fauna, 



IG;' Jcnyns, Man. 44; Bell, Brit. Quad. 500. f.511. 

 Cetus macrocephalus, Oken, Lehrb. Nat. 075. 



