284 LLOYD'S NATURAL HISTORY. 



of its occurrence on our shores being three in number. The 

 first of these stragglers entered the Firth of Forth so long 

 ago as the year 1648 ; the second was taken near Boston, in 

 Lincolnshire, during 1800; while the third was found eight 

 years later among the rocks in the Sound of Deesdale, in 

 Shetland. 



THE WHITE WHALES. GENUS DELPI1INAPTERUS. 

 Delphinapterus. Lacfyede, Hist. Nat. des Celaces, p. xli. 



(1804). 



General characters as in the preceding genus, but no long 

 tusk, and from eight to ten pairs of rather small teeth in each 

 jaw ; these teeth being conical and pointed when un-worn, but 

 usually becoming obliquely truncated by use. 



Like the last, this genus is represented by a single species. 



THE WHITE WHALE, OR BELUGA. DELPHINAPTERUS LEUCAS. 



Delphinus leucas, Pallas, Reise, Russ. Reichs. vol. iii. p. 85 



(1776). 



Balccna albicans, Miiller, Zool. Dan. Prodr. p. 7 (1776). 

 Delphinapterus belli ga^ Lacepede, Hist. Nat. des Ce'tace's, p. 



243 (1804). 

 Delphinapterns lencas, Bell, British Quadrupeds, 2nd ed., p. 440 



(1874); Southwell, British Seals and Whales, p. 108 (1881); 



Flower, List Cctacca Brit. Mus. p. 14 (1885). 

 Beluga leucas, Gray, Spicil. Zool. vol. i. p. 2 (1828); Bell, 



British Quadrupeds, p. 488 (1837). 

 Beluga catodon, Gray, Zool. Voy. Erebus and Terror, p. 29 (i 846); 



id. Cat Seals and Whales Brit. Mus. p. 377 (i8C6;. 

 Characters. Adult of a pure glistening white colour ; the 

 young bluish-grey. Length of adult from 10 to 12 feet. 



Dhtribntnn. As Arctic an animal as the Narwhal, although 

 ranging somewhat further south than the latter on the eastern 

 coast of America, the White Whale has equally slight claims 



