DR. J. MURIE ON THE ORGANIZATION OF THE CAAING WHALE. 237 
The above account corroborates what has often been told regarding the habits of the 
Pilot Whale. Their gregarious nature, constancy in following their leader, and manner 
of bellowing when injured, are peculiarities which have secured them the not inappro- 
priate names of “ Deductor” and the “Caaing' Whale.” Under the latter name Dr. Neil’ 
relates much interesting matter concerning them ; and Scoresby*, it seems, at a later date 
designated them by the former appellation. The latter author quotes an old history 
of the Faroe Islands, where the name “ Grind Whale” is used, probably derived from 
the ancient Norsemen, as the present Swedish and Danish term is ‘“* Grindehval ”*. 
The numbers of these Whales killed in family lots at different periods is something 
astonishing, a “school” occasionally being decimated at one fell swoop. Authentic 
accounts show that as many as 40, 70, 92, 98, 150, 190, and 200 have been destroyed 
at one onslaught. Consult the authors mentioned in p. 241, and also the ‘ Naturalist’s 
Library ’*, where Scoresby’s figure of the capture of 98 animals at Stornoway is copied. 
Mr. Gerrard, jun., of London, learning of the Whale-capture near Edinburgh, pro- 
ceeded to the spot and purchased seven for the sake of the skeletons. In cutting up 
one of these he found within it a foetus’ some 3 feet long. This he preserved in spirits 
and forwarded to the British Museum, where it now forms part of the rapidly increasing 
national collection of Cetaceans. A female, about 11 feet long, certified by the railway 
company as being 1 ton weight, was also transmitted to London for the purpose of a 
plaster cast of its body, intact, being taken by Mr. Frank Buckland. The casting of 
the huge marine mammal was safely accomplished ; and this is deposited in the Museum 
of Pisciculture at the Horticultural Gardens. I dissected the carcass of the last-men- 
tioned female specimen, the description of which is embodied in the text. The bones, 
roughly cleansed, were afterwards transmitted to Professor Krauss, Director of the 
Museum at Stuttgart’. 
A word of Scottish derivation, signifying to drive; see Traill and Brown, P. Z. 8. 1868, p. 555. 
* Tour through some of the Islands of Orkney and Shetland, Edinb. 1806. 
> Arctic Regions (1820), i. p. 496. 
“Synopsis of the Cetaceous Mammalia of Scandinavia,” by Professor Lilljeborg, Ray Society, 1866, p. 238. 
* Vol. xxvi. p. 214, and fig. 
Gulliver gives the measurements of a foetus in his notes of the Dundrum-Bay Cetacean herd (J. c.); and 
see Van Beneden’s account of a fcetus in utero of the same species (Bull. Acad. Belg. tom. 7, 2nd ser., p. 439), 
and of another from B. rostrata; also Turner, in B. sibbaidii (1. c. p. 203), and Orca gladiator (T. R. 8. Edinb. 
1871, p. 467); likewise Dr. Meig’s “Observations on the Reproductive Organs and on the Feetus of the 
Delphinus nesarnak,” Journ, Acad. N. 8. Philad. vol. i. part 3, Aug. 1849, p. 267, pls. 35, 36. 
* During the autumn of 1867 I paid a visit to Stuttgart, and Professor Krauss then showed me the skeleton. 
Its partially macerated condition, however, forbade my doing more than making a memorandum concerning the 
skull. This agrees with the characters appertaining to the species, and in measurements nearly corresponds to 
No. 3 in the College of Surgeons, as given by Dr. Gray (Cat. Seals and Whales, 1866, p.315). Extreme length 
233 inches ; width 143 inches; length of palate 113, and greatest diameter 73 inches; mandible 18 inches long 
and 6 inches deep at coronoid process; narial aperture 44 antero-posteriorly, and 33 inches from side to side. 
Ribs 11—1], of these four are attached to the sternum and one to the ensiform cartilage; the remainder are 
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