PHTSETERID^. 



a, 



Suborder ODONTOCETL 



Family I. PHYSETERID.^. 



Subfamily PHYSETERIN^. 



1. PHYSETER. 



Physeter, Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. 12, i. p. 107 (1766), 



1. Physeter macroceplialus. 



(Cachalot, or Sperm Whale.) 



Physeter macrocephalus, Linn. loc. cit. (1766). 



Articulated skeleton ; adult male*. (342 7i— 65. 7. 3. 1.) 



Sandside Bay, near Thurso, Caithness, July 1863. 



Capt. Macdonald, E.E. [P.]. 



Described (with others) in the Memoir on the Osteology of 



the Sperm Whale, by Flower, in Trans. Z. S. vol. vi. The length 



of the skeleton, as articulated, is 50 feet 1| inch in a straight 



line, but the three terminal vertebrae are wanting. 



h. Cranium of adidt male, and two mandibles without teeth. 



(342 a.) 

 " North Sea." In Museum since the last century. 



Figured in Cuvier's Oss. Poss. v. pt. 1, pi. xxiv. figs. 1-5. 



c. Lower jaw with the teeth complete. (342 g.) 



South Sea, between Cape Howe and New Zealand. 



Louis Nathan, Esq., 1851 [P.]. 

 Exhibited at the Great Exhibition of 1851. 



d. Lower jaw, with teeth of small size. (341 j — 67. 2. 24. 8.) 



Probably of a female or young male. Purchased, 1867. 



e. Lower jaw of still smaller size, without teeth. 



(342 c— 45. 12. 29. 4.) 

 Purchased, 1848. 



/. Lower jaw without teeth, remarkably curved. 



(342 ^'—48. 9. 24. 6.) 

 Purchased, 1848. 

 Described and figured by Dr. Murie, P. Z. S. 1S65, p. 390. 



g. Left ramus of lower jaw without teeth ; the symphysial portion 

 greatly curved. (342 i.) 



h. Teeth, various. 



* In Central Hall. 



