1. CATODON, 203 



Physeter gibbosus, Schrch. Sdugeth. t. 338 ; Johnston, Pise. 215. t. 41, 

 f. 1, 2, Snpp. t. 42, copied Braiult Sf Ratz. Med. Zool. t. 12. f. 20 ; 

 Willuyhh. Ichth. t. A 1. f. 3. 



Inhab. Atlantic Ocean. North Sea. Teignmouth {Gesner, 1532). 

 Whitstable Bay, 1794. Scotland (Sibbahl, Bohertson). Greenland 

 {0. Fabr. «fec.). New England, nine months of the year {Dudley, 

 Phil Trans, i. 132). 



a. SkuU. North Sea. 



Length, entire 179 inches. 



Length of beak 127 „ 



Width at notch 67 „ 



"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. Foss. v. 6. 24. f. 1-5. 



b. Lower jaw. Indian Seas. Presented by Colonel Cobb. 



c. 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 1 



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 specimens the symphysis is more, and in the younger ones less, 

 than half the entire length of the jaw. 



e,f. Teeth, various. 

 g. Section of a tooth. 



The Spermaceti Whale frequently comes ashore in Orkney ; one 

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



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

 in the Forth, in 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 driven on shore, all dead and in a high state of putrefac- 

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

 the coast of Holland. One at the Hope Point, in the River 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 WalderwicTc, on the coast of Suffolk, 7th March 

 1788, in Sir Joseph Banks's copy of Phil. Trans, in B. M. hbraiy.) 



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

 high. " It was purchased by Messrs. Enderby and Sturge, who 

 erected coppers on the beach and collected the oil. They presented 

 the skeleton, which had been prepared by Mr. J. Gould, to the 



