LIST OF ANIMVT.S OF SPITZBKROKX. 149 



The Whale. Page 104. 

 Balj:xa MTSTTCETrs — the Right Whale or Common Whale. 



For much valuable information on its history, see Scoresby's 

 Arctic Regions, vol. i, pp. 449-4T8 ; and for an account of 

 the modern mode of taking it as conducted at Spitzbergen, 

 see vol. ii, pp. 187-381. In Dr. Gray's Catalogue of Cetacea 

 in the British Museum, \}\). 5-14, much valuable information 

 is also given. 



BALiExopTERA KOSTKATA — the Pike Whale. 



Scoresby [Arctic Regions, i, 486) mentions one of this 

 small species having been killed near Spitzbergen in 1813. 

 He describes the whalebone of this specimen as being thin, 

 fibrous, of a yellowish white, and semi-transparent, almost 

 like lantern-horns. It is curved like a scimitar, and fringed 

 with white hair on the convex edge and point. Its length is 

 nine inches, and its greatest breadth two inches and a quarter. 



The Finn-Fish. Page 132. 

 Physalus axtiquorum — the Razor Back. 



Scoresby says this is " the longest animal of the whale 

 tribe, and probably the most powerful and bulky of created 

 beings". From its speed and activity it is difficult and dan- 

 gerous to attack it, and from the smallness of its whalebone 

 and the small quantity of inferior oil it affords, it is seldom 

 pursued by the whaler. It is found not uncommonly in the 

 Spitzbergen Seas. 



Butskopf or Place's Head. Page 100. 

 Htperoodon Butzkopf — the Bottle Head. 



Apparently found in the seas of Spitzbergen. 



The Unicorn. Page 101. 

 MoxoDON MoxocEROS — the Narwhal. 



The long prominent tusk is considered a horn by the 

 whales, and hence its name of " the unicorn". See Scoresby, 



