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Museum of the Zoological Society. The government having put in 

 a claim to the ' royal fish,' the whole proceeds of it were under 

 arrest, and the bones are now whitening on the shore." — P. Hunter 

 and H. Woods, Mag. Nat. Hist. May 1829, ii. 197. 



The skeleton of an adult male, 56 feet long, at Burton Constable 

 (Turnstall in Holderness, Yorkshii'e, 1825), was articulated by 

 Mr. Wallis (see Beale, 73). This specimen was cast on the coast of 

 Holderness, and claimed by Mr. Constable as Lord of Holdcrncss, and 

 sent to Burton Constable (Thomas Thompson, Mag. Nat. Hist. 1829, 

 ii. 477). The skeleton is 49 feet 7 inches long ; cranium 18 feet 

 i inch ; lower jaw 16 foot 10 inches. Teeth 24 . 24. Eibs 10 . 10, 

 nearly circular; the first vsdth one, the second, third, fourth, fifth, 

 sixth, seventh, and eighth with two articulating surfaces, each arti- 

 culated to two vertebrae. Cervical vertebrae 2 — that is, atlas and 

 another united ; dorsal vertebrae 10 ;. lumbar and caudal 32 : = 44. 

 Pelvis two flat bones ; sternum of three bones ; cla\icles none ; 

 blade-bone flat, without any spine, but with two projecting coracoid 

 processes near the articulation ; bones of pectoral fins 4 feet 4 inches 

 long ; carpus of seven loose square bones ; the phalanges five, the 

 three middle ones each of four and the two outer each of tliree bones. 

 The OS hj'oides 2| feet long. — Beale. 



This is the skeleton from the coast of Yorkshire described by 

 Dr. Anderson in Cambridge Phil. Soc. Trans. 1825, ii. t. 12, 13, 14, 

 but it is said to be 58 1 feet long, teeth 24 . 24. 



" In July 1835 a whale came alongside of his boat, and sometimes 

 at no greater distance than a fathom. It was between 30 and 40 feet 

 long, but he could not well distinguish the hinder part of his body. 

 The body very thick and solid, with a fin on the tail of an extraordi- 

 nary shape, appearing like a hump, not high, and almost two fathoms 

 long, with the upper portion in a waved form as of separate humps, 

 and tapering behind into the general shape, where the body became 

 more slender." — Couch, Whale on the Coast of Cormvall, 32. 



This is probably the whale Mr. Couch in his former list referred 

 to Physeter jJoh/cystiis. 



Ireland, north and north-west coast {Mohjnea^ix, Phil. Trans. 1795, 

 xix. 508); Youghal {Smith); Dublin, 1766 {Rutty). 



Sandy Side Bay, Thirso, August 1863, skeleton presented to the 

 British Museum ; supposed to have been brought by the Gulf-stream ; 

 was decayed when discovered. 



Duhamel (Peches, iv. t. 15. f. 63) figures a male Cachalot, 48 feet 

 long, taken near Bayonne. He erroneously represents it as having a 

 long high fin between the vent and the tail, like the anal fin of fish. 



" A true Cachalot was taken in 1856 by the fishermen of St. Na- 

 zaire, in the Mediterranean, and a considerable portion of its lower 

 jaw is preserved in the collection of the Marist Fathers, at La Scyne, 

 near Toulon." — Gervais, Comptes Jiendus, 28th Nov. 1864, 876 ; Ann. 

 ^ Mag. N. H. 1865, 75. 



Skeleton mounted in the Court of the Cabinet of Comparative Ana- 

 tomy at Paris (Blainville, Ann. Fr. et Etrang. d'Anat. et de Phys. 

 ii. 326), which is said to have been purchased in London. 



