MONODON MONOCEROS. Ayal | 
CETACEA. MONODON. 
Fig. 215. 
Fossil fragment of the tush of a Narwhal, 3 nat. size. 
MONODON MONOCEROS. Narwhal. 
Narwhal, PaARKINSON, Organic Remains. 4to., 1811, vol. iii. p. 809. 
Narval fossile, Cuvier, Ossemens Fossiles, 4to., 1625, vol. v. pt. 1. 
p. 349. 
Monodon fossilis, H. v. Meyer, Paleologica, 8yo., 1832, p. 99, 
Monodon monoceros, OWEN, Report of British Association, 1842. 
Tur following is the evidence of the existence, during the 
deposition of our tertiary strata, of the very remarkable 
species of Cetaceous animal, whose spiral tusk so long 
perplexed the older naturalists, and still figures in heraldry 
as the horn of the fabulous Unicorn. 
Mr. Parkinson, in the work above cited, states that 
two fossil fragments of the long-projecting and _ spirally- 
twisted tooth of the Narwhal were formerly in the mu- 
seum of Sir Ashton Lever; and he adds, ‘“‘ One of these 
T now possess, and strongly suspect it to have been found 
on the Essex coast.” 
