CONTENTS 



VOLUME SIXTH. 



TAC,% 



Memoir op Lacepede . . . . . . 17 



Introduction 33 



Comparative Anatomy of the Cetacea. Plate I. . 43 



First Genus Bal^na 76 



The Greenland Whale. 



Bakena Mystketus. Plate II 76 



Food of the Whale. Plate III 87 



Northern Wliale Fishery 93 



Whale breccchincfi or leaping out of the water. Plate IV. 113 



Wliale upsetting a boat. Plate IV*. . . . 115 

 Whale of the Southern Seas. 



Balana Aitstralis 122 



Second Genus Rorqualus 125 



Great Northern Rorqual. 



Rorqualus Borealis. Plate V. . . . . 125 



Skeleton of the Great Northern Rorqual. Plate VI. 139 

 The Lesser Rorqual. 



Rorqiialus Rostratus Plate VII. . . . 142 

 Rorqual of the Southern Seas. 



RorqzicUus Austmlis . . . . . 146 



Fossile Rorquals, &c. 150 



Third Genus, — Cachalot 154 



The Spermaceti AVliale from Frith of Forth. PI. VIIT. 1 54 



The Spermaceti Whale of Southern Ocean. Plate IX. 1 58 



The South Sea Fishery 169 



Dying Struggles of the Spermaceti Wliale. Plate X. 171 



The Heterodons (with few and heterogeneous teeth) 181 



