GLOBICEPHALUS.—PHYSETER. 261 
GENUS GLOBICEPHALUS—THE CA’*ING OR PILOT WHALE. 
Head globular in front ; teeth few in number; the dorsal fin is high, 
situated nearer to the head than to the tail; the flippers very long and 
narrow ; the fingers possessing an unusually large number of bones. 
No. 269. GLOBICEPHALUS INDICUS. 
The Indian Cading Whale (Jerdon’s No. 146). 
Hapitat.—Bay of Bengal. 
DescrIPpTION.—Body cylindrical, tapering to the tail ; dorsal fin high, 
falcate, and placed about the middle of the body proper, excluding the 
tail portion ; the forehead with a prominent boss over the snout, which 
is short ; pectoral fins long and narrow; colour uniform leaden black, 
paler beneath. 
Size.—Fourteen feet, flippers 2 feet; dorsal fin, 2} feet long, 11 
inches high ; tail flukes, 3 feet broad. 
Blyth’s specimens were procured in the Salt Lakes near Calcutta. It 
was for the young of this that he mistook Ovcella brevirostris. 
PHYSETERIDA—THE CACHELOTS OR SPERM WHALES. 
(PS DINN ORS AIL OL LT FEN ASW DI AI ORS 
No. 270. PHYSETER ov EUPHYSETES SIMUS. 
The Snub-nosed Cachelot. 
NaTivE Name.— Wonga, Telugu. 
HasitTat.—Bay of Bengal. 
DESCRIPTION.—The general form of this animal resembles the 
porpoise, but the position of the mouth at once distinguishes it. It is 
small and situated, like that of the shark, considerably under the blunt 
rostrum, so much so as to lead one to conjecture whether or not it turns 
on its back in seizing its prey, as do the sharks. The blow hole is 
crescentic, but eccentrically placed to the left of the middle line of the 
head, and the horns of the crescent are turned diagonally backwards 
—that is to say, the lower limb points to the back whilst the upper one 
touches the middle line and points across; the eye is small; the 
pectoral fins are triangular, about one foot in length and four and a-half 
inches broad in the male, and four inches in the female; the dorsal fin 
is sub-falcate, standing about a foot high, and is nine to ten inches 
broad at the base ; the male being the broader ; the colour is a shining 
black above, palerand pinkish below. 
