94 CETACEA. 



No. 1. No. 2. 



in. in. 



Skull : Length, entire 33 4l 



of nose 1 91 22^ 



of teeth line 14 20 



of lower jaw 27^ 35 



Breadth at notch 10 14 



at orbit 18 



at temple 18 



at middle of beak. ... 9^ 



of intermaxillary .... 



in front 4 6 



in middle 3^ 3J 



The skull, n. 1136, of the Museum of the College of Surgeons 

 (called the Large Grampus, D. Grampus in the catalogue), is of 

 most colossal size. It formed part of the Hunterian collection, 

 and is probably the skull of the large specimen, 31 feet long, 

 killed at Greenwich in 1793. Banks in Lacepede. It has teeth 

 |f, very large, nearly to the notch. Intermaxillary rather dilated, 

 broader over the front of the nose. 



Fabricius says, " The Aidluit: has in the lower jaw 22 teeth, 11 

 on each side, arched, falciform, hollow internally as far as the 

 point, projecting scarcely a third part (and this visible part is 

 enamelled, compressed-conical, with the point sharp, curved in- 

 wardly and at the same time verging a little backwards ; but 

 the concealed part broader and having two parts, compressed an- 

 teriorly and posteriorly, and especially on the side nearest the 

 throat, channeled) ; of the length of a finger, and 1^ inch broad, 

 the middle ones larger, the anterior and posterior smaller. Beak 

 rather obtuse. Beside the pectoral fins it has a long, erect dorsal 

 fin. In size it is to be considered as amongst the smaller whales. 

 Skin glabrous, black; the fat thick, but little oily; flesh red." 

 Fabricius, Faun. Grcenl. 



Of the Aidluit wonderful stories are told : the following is not 

 the most extraordinary. " Where these appear all the seals dis- 

 appear, else they make desperate slaughter among them, for they 

 have such sagacity and skill in catching them with the mouth and 

 fins, that they are sometimes seen loaded with five at a time, one 

 in the mouth, a couple under each fin and one under the back 

 fin." Crantz, Greenland, i. 116. 



2. ORCA CRASSIDENS. The LINCOLNSHIRE KILLER. 



Intermaxillaries rugose in front. Teeth |, large, conical, 

 rather acute (all but the front lower false), near to the preorbital 



