CETACEA. 53 
2. Kocia. SHortT-HEADED WHALES. 
Head es broad, triangular. Lower jaw wide behind, 
slender, united by a short symphysis in front. Jaw-bone of skull 
i road, triangular, as broad as long. 
__ This genus is intermediate between Catodou and Delphinus. 
p The skull is quite distinct from the skull of the young Sperm 
ale. ‘The entire animal has not been observed. 
- sp. Blainv. Ann. Anat. et Phys. ii.; Lesson, N. Reg. 
Anim. 201. 
.ogia, Gray, Zool. Erebus & Terror, 22. 
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1. KoGia BREVIcEPsS. The SHort- HEADED WHALE. 
f _ Skull very broad and high, the frontal crest very distinct, and 
the nasal pit very deep, rather like that of the Cachalot. Nose 
y ery short and pointed, very rapidly tapering, only 1 inch longer 
than the breadth of the occipital bone. The lower jaw is very 
ide apart at the condyles, bent sharply inwards, and united in 
cont by a moderate symphysis, and very narrow but rounded at 
ne end. Teeth 14 or 15, narrow, slender, conical, acute, and 
rather arched inwardly. 
: Physeter breviceps, Blainv. Ann. Anat. et Phys. iii. 1838, 337. 
‘i t.15; Lesson, N. Reg. Anim. 201. 
‘Kogia breviceps, Gray, Zool. Ereb. & Terror, 22. 
‘4 hab. Cape of Good Hope, Mus. Paris. 
Described from a single skull m the Paris Museum. Length 
of the skull 14 inches 6 lines. Lower jaw 13 inches, separation 
t the condyles 12 inches, symphysis about 2 of the length of the 
ower jaw. Beak the length of the width at the notch. 
+] 3. PHYSETER. 
ii * Head rounded, convex above; upper jaw longest; the 
lowers on’ the middle of the top of the head, separate, covered 
ith one flap; pectoral fin moderate, triangular; dorsal fin 
igh, faleate ; teeth conical, compressed; the male organ under 
a front edge of the dorsal, and the vent nearly under its hinder 
2.” — Sibbald. 
Physeter, sp. Linn. ; Artedi; Illiger, Prod. 143, 1811. 
ehyseter, Rafin. Anal. Nat. 1815, 60. 
ur 10, Fleming, Phil. Zool. 211, 1822 (P. _microps). 
etus (Ruckenfinne), Oken, Lehrb. Nat. 676. 
Ph hodon, Rafin. Anal. Nat. 60, 1815 (no char. nor type). 
ehyseteres, Lacep.; F. Cuv. D. S.N. lix. 318. 
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