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Eleventh Genus— GLOBICEPHALUS. 



Tills genus is characterized by having no visible snout ; the 

 head is entirely globular, and the mouth is not so much at 

 its anterior extremity as at its under part. In this it re- 

 sembles the Beluga, but diflPers from it in having a dorsal 

 fin, as well as by many other marked distinctions. 



THE DEDUCTOR, OR CA'ING WHALE. 



PLATE XVn. 



Globicephalus Deductor, Lesson Delphinus Globiceps, Cu' 



vier, Desrn. — D. Deductor, Scorseby D. Melas, Dr. Trail. 



Egede is perhaps the first author who makes 

 mention of the Deductor, imder the name of Buts- 

 head (Descrip. of Greenland^ 75) ; and he was soon 

 followed by Duhamel, who gave a figure of one 

 taken at Havre, imder tlie name of " the porpoise 

 Tv-ith the round snout." In 1806, Dr. NeiJ, in an 

 appendix to his " Tour through some of the Islands 

 of Orkney and Shetland," gives a more extended 

 and interesting account of them, under the name of 

 Uyea-Sound or Ca'ing Whales, than any which had 

 previously appeared ; and three years after. Dr. Trail 

 published in Nicolson's Journal (1809) the first 

 accm-ate description of this species, giving it the 

 appellation of Delphinm Melas., with a dramng 

 from hia friend James Watson^ Es(i., which was 



