4756 THE ZooLocGtsTt—JANUARY, 1876. 
(pronounced glashin), in allusion to their green colour; a year later 
they are called “ two-year-old glasan ;” and from thenceforward are 
entitled to the full name of “ gray lord,” which is employed for the 
adult fish of from eight to twenty-five pounds. For this last term 
I have failed to find any meaning, and should be glad if any of 
your readers could inform me. It is a strange thing that the 
pollack (Gadus pollachius, Linn.), though quite as abundant a 
species here, has no names peculiar to its different ages, but is 
universally known as “lythe,” whether young or adult. 
The Latin names which I have employed are taken from 
Dr. Giinther’s British Museum Catalogue, and the rarer specimens 
above mentioned are now in the collection of the Royal Dublin 
Society. 
J. Doucias OGILBY. 
36, Elgin Road, Dublin. 
Balzonoptera musculus at Lynn.—A whale of this species was found 
floating dead in the Channel near the Knock Buoy, in the Lynn Roads, on 
the 9th of August last. The men brought it on shore at the back of the 
stone-banks about two miles below Lynn. When found it was in an 
advanced state of decomposition, and must have been long dead: it 
measured forty-two feet in length. The carcase was purchased by a manure - 
company, and I believe cut up before any competent authority had examined 
it; but some of the remains were afterwards examined by Mr. Clark, of 
Cambridge, who found it to be a young specimen of B. musculus, and 
secured a section of the skull for the Cambridge Museum. Whence come 
these dead and more or less decomposed fin-whales which are from time to 
time stranded on our shores? Perhaps the following may throw some light 
upon the subject :—On board a Vadsé and Hamburgh steamer last summer, 
the captain told me that a certain Herr 8, Foyn established, eight or nine 
years ago, at Vadsi, a fishery for this species. From its active habits and 
the velocity with which this whale rushes through the water when har- 
pooned, it is difficult and dangerous in the extreme to take in the ordinary 
way, and at first Mr. Foyn met with small success; of late years, however, 
he has perfected his mode of attack and kills thirty or forty each season. 
He found the ordinary harpoon of little use, for the reasons above given, 
and now makes use of a detonating shell, which kills the whale instantly, 
and it is seldom that one escapes. When secured they are towed into 
Vadso, where they are drawn up an inclined “slip” by a winch, and there 
stripped of their blubber ; the carcase is made into manure aud the blubber 
refined on the spot. In the summer of 1874 they killed thirty-five whales, 
