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48 CETACEA. . a 
finned Cachalot is specifically but not generically distinet fro 
the common one, and that therefore the genus Catodon is to k 
abolished, and the name Physeter retained for both species; a 
secondly, that all the other species which have been distinguishe 
by various naturalists, have been founded upon trifling variati 
or upon vague and insufficient data.”—Brit. Quad. 507. Thu 
though Mr. Bell differs from Cuvier in regarding them as distint 
species, yet he overlooked Sibbald’s figures, for he says there ; 
no figure of the High-finned Cachalot m existence, and keeps iti 
the genus Physeter, which he characterizes as having the “ Hea 
enormously large, truncated in front,’ which is quite unlike th 
depressed rounded head of the High-finned Cachalot; and hi 
also adopts the mistaken description of the dorsal fin. q 
Dr. Jackson observes—“ The dorsal fin or hump forms a ver 
obtuse angle, and is ill-defined, bemg (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 thre 
quite small finlets.”"— Boston, Journ. N. H. v. 137. These latte 
are, perhaps, what are represented as humps in Quoy’s figure o 
C. polycyphus. ; 
The figure of the Sperm Whale in Duhamel, Pes. iv. t. 15. f.¢ 
is good for the form and blower, and has the “ taquet”’ marked 
but a fin has been added below, between the vent and tail, m th 
position of the anal fins of fishes! mt. 9. f.1. This author ha 
figured and described Orca gladiator for the sperm whale! 
Bonnaterre’s figure (H.M. t.7.f.2) of the Grand Cachalot take 
at Andiene, 1784, and copied by Lacepéde, t. 10. f. 1, is not s 
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 
specting the tail. ’ 
It is to be remarked that all the older writers only deserib 
this animal as occurring in the Northern seas, and Robertson 
and Fabricius described it as black when young, becoming whitis 
below. 
All the figures, except Anderson’s, are, by the unanimous ex 
perience of the whalers, far too long for the thickness; and Az 
derson’s scarcely represents the “‘ bunch”’ sufficiently promimen 
besides having the blower on the wrong part of the head. 
Beale (Nat. Hist. of the Sperm Whale) says, there is but on 
species found im the North Sea, North America, New Guinea, E 
pan or Peru; but this is merely speaking the language of whaler 
and by species he means, as he does in the other parts of hi 
book, genus. I have no doubt, from analogy of other whale 
that when we shall have had the opportunity of accurately cot 
paring the bones and the various proportions of the parts of tl 
