56 CETACEA. 



1. PHYSETER TUBSIO. The BLACK-FISH. 



Black. Teeth 11 to 22 on each side, conical, compressed; 

 head nearly i pectoral fin T V the entire length ; the length 50- 

 60 feet. 



1. De Balsena macrocephala quae tertiam in dorso pinnam sive 



spinam habet et dentes in maxilla inferiores arcuatos falci- 



formes. Sibbald, Phal. t. 1. f. A, B, C; hence 

 Baltena major inferiore tantum maxilla dentata dentibus ar- 



cuatis falciformibus pinnam s. spinam in dorso habet. Raii 



Pisces, 15. 

 Cetus tripinnis dentibus arcuatis falciformibus, Brisson, R.A. 



229. 

 Physeter microps, Artedi, Syn.; Linn. S.N. i. 107; Schreber, 



Saugth. t. 339 ; Anderson, Iceland, 248, fig. from Sibbald. 

 Physeter macrocephalus, Cuvier, Oss. Foss.v. 331, 334. 

 Tursio microps, Fleming, Phil. Zool. 211. 



2. Baleena macrocephala tripinna quse in mandibula inferiore 



dentes habet minus inflexos et in planum desinentes. 



Sibbald, Phal. t. 2. f. 1, 2, 4, 5, teeth; Rail Pise. 16. 

 Cetus tripinnis dentibus in planum desinentibus, Brisson, 



R. A. 230. 



Physeter Tursio, Artedi, Syn. ; Linn. S. N. i. 107. 

 Delphinus globiceps? or D. Grampus? Cuv. Oss. Foss. v.331, 



334. 



3. Mular, Bayer, Act. Nat. Cur. 111. 1. 1, male; hence 

 Ph. Mular, Bonnat. Cet. 17. 



Ph. Orthodon, Lacep. Cet. 236, from Anderson, 246. 

 Delphinus Bayeri, Risso, Eur. Merid. iii. ; F. Cuv. Cetac. 224, 



from Bayer. 

 Inhab. North Sea. Scotland, Sibbald. Nice, Bayer. 



Sibbald observes that " the superior part of the body was swelled 

 to a prodigious size. In length it was 52 or 53 feet, its height 

 12 feet, its girth above 32 feet. Its head was so large that it was 

 (the tail being removed) half the length of the whole body. In 

 form it was oblong-round, somewhat compressed at the upper 

 part; inferior part of rostrum beyond lower jaw 2 feet, the su- 

 perior part nearly 5. Lower jaw 10 feet long. The extreme 

 part of the rostrum was distant 12 feet from the eyes, which 

 were very small for the size of the head, about the size of those 

 of the haddock. A little above the middle of the rostrum is a 

 lobe, which is called the ' mm,' with two entrances covered with 

 one operculum, called the ' flap.' The size of the cranium may 

 be estimated by the fact that four men were seen inside it at one 

 time, extracting the brain, which contained several cells or al- 



