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of our steamboat, and were no doubt attracted to the spot by the 
number of porpoises and other foes of the herring which the 
abundance of their favourite food had drawn together. 
III. GLOBIOCEPHALUS, Lésson. 
1. G. svinevaL, Lacep. Ca’tna Wuate. Rovunp-HEADED Por- 
POISE. Pinot Wuaue. Buack WaHate. How.inc WHALE. 
SocraL WHALE. 
Globiocephalus svineval, Gray (Cat. Cet. 87); Phocena 
melas, Bell. 
This species, which attains to a length of 19 or 20 feet, is 
occasionally met with on our coast in large herds. These herds 
are always piloted about by a leader (whence the name of Pilot 
whale), and if this leader should chance to run on shore, they 
all blindly follow him to their destruction. We have little 
doubt that Wallis’s account of the herd stranded at Shoreston 
refers to this species. 
Mr. George Tate records the destruction of another large herd 
at Howick Burn mouth, on the Northumberland coast, in the 
Proceedings of the Berwickshire Club, Vol. III. p. 176. 
IV, HYPEROODON, Lacep. 
1. H. Burzxorr, Zacep. Borrtte-neap. Brakep WHALE. 
fyperoodon Butzkopf, Gray (Cat. Cet. 63). 
We are not able to record any recent instance of the capture 
of this species on our coast, and can therefore only place it in 
our catalogue on the ground of the discovery of a skeleton in 
the bed of the Tyne near Newcastle. For a full account of 
these remains, and of the arguments in favour of the whale 
when in life having wandered to the spot where it was found, 
to die there, we must refer our readers to a very interesting 
paper by Dr. Embleton in our Transactions, Vol. IV. p. 50. 
2. H. Latirrons, Gray. 
Hyperoodon latifrons, Gray (Cat. Cet. 70). 
This fine species inhabits the North Sea, and has been seen on 
