56 CETACEA,. 
1. Puyseter Tursto. The BLACK-FISH. 
Black. Teeth 11 to 22 on each side, conical, compressed; 
head nearly 3, pectoral fin +; the entire length; the length 50= 
60 feet. : F: 
1. De Balena macrocephala que tertiam in dorso pinnam sive 
spinam habet et dentes in maxilla inferiores arcuatos falei 
formes.—Sibbald, Phal. t. 1. f. A, B, C; hence . 
Balzna major inferiore tantum maxilla dentata dentibus ar- 
cuatis falciformibus pinnam s. spinam in dorso habet.—Rawt 
Pisces, 15. - ” 
Cetus tripinnis dentibus arcuatis falciformibus, Brisson, R.A. 
999. 
Physeter microps, Artedi, Syn.; Linn. S.N.i. 107; Schreber, 
Saugth. t. 339; Anderson, Iceland, 248, fig. from Sibbald. 
Physeter macrocephalus, Cuvier, Oss. Foss. y. 331, 334. 
Tursio microps, Fleming, Phil. Zool. 211. 
2. Balena macrocephala tripinna que in mandibula inferiore 
dentes habet minus inflexos et in planum desinentes.— 
Sibbald, Phal. t. 2. f.1, 2, 4, 5, teeth; Rati Pise. 16. 
Cetus tripimnis dentibus in planum desmentibus, Brisson, 
R. A. 230. 
Physeter Tursio, Artedi, Syn.; Linn. S. N.1i. 107. a 
Delphinus globiceps? or D. Grampus? Cuv. Oss. Foss. vy. 331, 
334. : 
3. Mular, Bayer, Act. Nat. Cur.111. t.1, male; hence 
Ph. Mular, Bonnat. Cet. 17. 
Ph. Orthodon, Lacep. Cet. 236, from Anderson, 246. 
Delphinus Bayeri, Risso, Eur. Merid. u.; F. Cuv. Cetae. 
from Bayer. 
Inhab. North Sea. Scotland, Sibbald. Nice, Bayer. | 
Sibbald observes that “ the superior part of the body was swelled 
to a prodigious size. In length it was 52 or 53 feet, its height 
12 feet, its girth above 32 feet. Its head was so large that it w 
(the tail being removed) half the length of the whole body. 
form it was oblong-round, somewhat compressed at the upper 
part; inferior part of rostrum beyond lower jaw 2; feet, the su- 
perior part nearly 5. Lower jaw 10 feet long. The extreme 
part of the rostrum was distant 12 feet from the eyes, whie 
were very small for the size of the head, about the size of those 
of the haddock. A little above the middle of the rostrum is a 
lobe, which is called the ‘lum,’ with two entrances covered with 
one operculum, called the ‘flap.’ The size of the cranium maj 
be estimated by the fact that four men were seen inside it at or 
time, extracting the brain, which contained several cells or al 
