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THE GRAMPUS. 



PLATE XX, 



PhocsRna Grampus. — Delphinus Grampus, Hunter. Desm 



Porcas Mariuus Major, Crantz, Gesner. 



The common Grampus, so well known round the 

 liritish, and more especially the Scottish shores, 

 under that appellation. As we believe that this 

 remarkable animal is the original of very many of 

 the alleged species of Dolphin, so called, to guard 

 against mistake, it will be necessary to introduce a 

 few words in explanation. We take it to be the 

 Delphinus Orca of Fabricius, Bonnaterre, and La- 

 cepede ; the Butskopf of Anderson, and the second 

 kind of Butskopf of JMartens ; the Epee de Mer or 

 Sword-Jish of Anderson and Crantz, and of which 

 Bonnaterre and Lacepede made their Delphinim 

 Gladiator. We regard it also as the Epaulard of the 

 French, a name which has been very vaguely and 

 generally applied; it is also the second Grampus 

 of Mr. Hunter ; which the French naturalists, from 

 a figure sent them, called the Delph. Ventricosm. 

 Finally, it is the fish which the Americans have long 

 been in the habit of denominating the Killer or 

 Thrasher^ from its reputed pugnacious and cruel 

 disposition. 



