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PHYSETER. CACHALOT. 



ic Character. 



Dtntes in maxilla inferiorc. II Teeth visible in the lower jaw 



only. 

 Fistula in cupite s. fronte. |; Spiracle on the head or snout. 



BLUNT-HEADED CACHALOT. 



Physeter Macrucephalus. P. dorso itnpinni, Jistula in certice*. 



Lin. Sytt. Nat. p. io;. Artedi. Gen. 78. Syn. 108. 

 Cachalot with tin less hack, and spiracle on the neck. 

 Balacn.i. Jonst. pise. p. 215. t. 41, 42. Will, ic/ttk. t. A. i.f. J. 

 The Sj>ermaceti Whale. Brva-n Jam. p. 459. 

 Blunt-headed Cachalot. Pennant Brit. Zool. p. 59. 

 The Parmacitty Whale, or Put Wai Fish. Dale Mar*, p. 413, 



II I S \V hale, \vhich is one of the largest spe- 

 is scarcely inferior in size to the great Mys- 

 ticctc, often iiuMMiring sixty feet or more in 

 length. The head is of mormons .-ixe, constitut- 

 ing more than a third of the whole animal; the 

 mouth wide; the upper lip rounded, thick or high, 

 and much broader than the lower, which is of a 



* Thif expression, according to Fabricius, is not quite correct. 



