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genus, which was thrown ashore at Nice, on the 10th of Nov. 

 1736, where it is called Mular. He compared it with Clusius' 

 description of the Sperm Whale which was stranded on the coast 

 of Holland, and observes that it has a dorsal fin, very small pec- 

 torals, and other characters not noticed by Clusius ; and he sjiyx 

 it agrees in all points with the whale noticed by Ray (Syn. Pise. 

 14), which is extracted from Sibbald as above quoted. 



F. Cuvier, overlooking the reference to Clusius and Ray, and 

 the characters, speaks thus of Bayer's figure, " Elle est en effet 

 d'un Cachalot; mais elle le rend de la maniere la moms fidele." 

 Cetac. 267. 



Duhamel (Peck. iv. t, 9. f. 2) figured a whale from the " River 

 Gabon " in Guinea, with teeth in the lower jaw, a dorsal on the 

 hinder part of the back, and the blowers in the crown, as in this 

 genus ; but the jaws are equal, and the mouth bent up at the 

 angles to the eyes. He says it is called Grampus by the English. 



There is an etching of Van den Veld, of a " Pot Walwesk op 

 Noortwijek op Zee, 28 Dec. 1614," which I think represents this 

 species. 



Beale (History of Sperm Whale, 11) observes, "Others of the 

 Whale tribe have dorsal fins while they possess the cylindrical jaw 

 (like the Sperm Whale), as the Black-fish, but yet spout from 

 the forehead or top of the head, and do not produce spermaceti." 

 It is doubtful if this is not derived from Sibbald, for it can 

 scarcely refer to the Globiocephalus macrorhynchus, which ac- 

 cording to Bennett, Nunn and others, is called the Black-fish by 

 South Sea whalers. 



I formerly thought that the Aidluik of O. Fabricius was iden- 

 tical with the Balcena microcephala of Sibbald, but Professor 

 Eschricht observes, that it is most important, in the determina- 

 tion of O. Fabricius' synonyma, to attend to the Greenlanders' 

 names, as they are most accurate cetologists ; he observes (on 

 the authority of Capt. Holbroll), " that two of the animals which 

 Fabricius referred to Physeter, viz. 1st, the ' Pernak,' which he 

 called P. Catodon, is probably, and 2nd, the ' Aidluik,' called by 

 him P. microps (which Cuvier has thought might be D. glo- 

 biceps), is certainly, the Northern Sword-fish, Delphinus Oca." 

 Kong. Danske Afhandl. xi. 136. 



Fabricius' description of the ' Aidluik ' will do for Orca gladi- 

 ator ; except that he calls it black, and does not mention the very 

 remarkable white marks of that species, and he only described the 

 lower jaw as toothed. Now the upper teeth of Orca are not de- 

 ciduous. It is more probably a Grampus. As far as I can trans- 

 late the Danish, it appears that the Black-fish or Balcena micro- 

 cephala of Sibbald, which I thought might be Aidluik, has entirely 

 escaped the notice of Professor Eschricht. 



