16 MAMMALIA. CETE. 25, 



little behind the eyes: dorfal-fn 3 or 4 feet long, a little falcate, 

 acute ; lobes of the tail lanceolate. 



50. B. Boops. Spiracles placed on the snout : back 

 with a cartilaginous protuberance near the tail. 



Pike-headed Whale. Shaw Zool. t. 227. 



Body about 46 feet long, and 20 in circumference, black above, 

 white beneath : belly with numerous longitudinal plaits which are 

 red on the inside : fore-part of the back convex and sloping down 

 to the fnout ; upper-jaw a little rounded, furnished with numerous 

 laminae of whalebone about a foot long : lower-jaw rather narrower 

 and acute ; tongue 5 feet long, wrinkled, liver-coloured : noftrils 

 with 3 rows of circular convexities before them : eyes placed behind 

 the fpiracles : ears minute, behind the eyes:fpiracles feparated by 

 a thin partition: pectoral-fins large, obovate-oblong, with rounded 

 r.renatures on the anterior part : dorfal-f.n of a fatty-cartilaginous 

 substance, placed above the vent, nearly perpendicular, behind 

 which is a sharp ridge retching to the tail : lobes ofthc tail ob- 

 long, slightly pointed. 



51. B. Musculm. Spiracles on the front: lower-jaw 

 much wider than the upper. 



Round-lipped Whale. Sib. Phalain. 33. tab. T. 3. 



Body 78 feet long, and 35 in circumference, black above, white 

 beneath : lower-lip much broader than the upper, femicircularly 

 turned up, with black laminae of whalebone about 3 feet long: up- 

 per-lip rather pointed: tongue 15 feet and a half long; /piracies 

 pyramidal, on the forehead : pectoral-Jins 10 feet long ; dorfal-fin. 

 fat, about 3 feet high : tail 18 feet broad : belly full of plaits. 



52. B. rostrata. Snout elongated, gradually tapering to 

 a point : dorsal-fin fatty. 



Roftrated Whale. Shaw Natural Mifcet. 9. tab. 304. 



Body about 25 feet long, very thick, dark blueish-brown above, 

 white with a pale tinge of flesh-colour beneath, with numerous lon- 

 gitudinal plaits for about half its length : upper-jaw thinner than the 

 lower, with a single tooth each side : nofc long, deprefsed, nearly of 

 the fame thicknefs its whole length : pectoral-fins fmall, narrow .- 

 dcrfal-fin fmall, near the tail : lobes of the tail rather long, pointed. 



25. PHYSETER. Cachalot. 



53. Ph. macroccphalus. Spiracle on the neck: back without 

 fin. 



Blunt-headed Cachalot. Perm. 3. t. 6. Skaw t. 228. 



Body nearly 60 feet long, and 30 in girth, black, whitish under- 

 neath when advanced in age : head enormous, conftituting a third 

 part of the whole body, and feparated from it by a tranfverfe furrow: 

 upper-jaw extremely blunt, nearly perpendicular, and about 9 feet 

 high : lower-jaw thin and rather sharp, shorter than the upper, con- 

 taining on each side 23 conic rather cbtufe teeth which fit into cor- 

 refpondent fockets in the upper : tongue the shape of the lower-jaw, 

 clay-coloured : fpiracle simple externally, double within, feated on 

 an angular prominence: back fometimes convex fometimes with a 

 gibbofity ; eyes small, black, remote from the nofe, placed about 

 half way down the head : ears very fmall : pr.ctoral-fins placed near 

 the corners of the mouth, about 3 feet long : lobes of the -tart point- 

 ed. In a vast cavity in the head is found the fubftance called jpfrma- 

 ceti, and in the inteftincs ambergris . 



54. Ph. Catodon. Spiracle at the extremity of the snout: 

 back without fin: 



Round-headed Cachalot. Shaw'i.p.^i. Penn. 3. p. 63. 



Body about 24feet long : head rounded : mouth fmall : bath without 

 fin or portuberance, instead of which is a rough space : teeth larger 

 and fiat at top, marked with concentric circles.* 



