Allen's bibliography of cetacea and sirenia. 437 



1722. Anon. Whales and Whalo Fishing about Bcrmudtis. <^rMlo8. Trans., Abridged 

 hy Lowthorp [1G65-1700], ii, 1722, pp. 842-845. 



Prom Philos. Trans. Land, [i], no. 1, p. 11[-13] ; no. 8, p. 132 [133]. Seo suprd, Anon, at 16C5. 



[181.] 



1722. [Labat, R. p.] Nouveau | Voyage | aux Isles | de I'Amerique, | contenant | 

 I'Histoire Naturelle de ces Pays, | I'Origiue, les Mceurs, la Religion & le 

 Gouver- | nement des Habitans anciens & niodomes. | Les Gnerrcs & les 

 Evenemens singuliers qui y sont | arrivez pendant le long scjour que I'Auteur 

 y a fait. | Le Commerce & les Manufactures qui y sont 6tablics, | »fc les Moyens 

 de les augraenter. | Avec une Description exacto & curieuse | de toutes ces 

 Isles. I Ouvrage enrichi de plus de cent Cartes, Plans, | & Figures en Tailles- 

 douces. I [Par Jean Pierre Labat.] Toms Premier [-Seizi&me]. ( [Design] A 

 Paris, Rue S. Jacques, | Chez Pierre-Franijois Giffart, pres | la rue des Mathiu- 

 rins, a I'Iniage | Sainte Therese. | — | M. DCC. XXII. | Avec Approbation & 

 Privilege du Roy. (i vols. 12°. 



Description (Vim poisson appell6 Lamentin ou Manati, vol. ii, pp. 200-207, pL fac. p. 200. — 

 Very full original account of external characters and mode of capture, witli an original figure — 

 an adult clasping its young one to its breast. The figure, slightly altered, is given by Bcllin, 

 17C3, q. V. [182.] 



1722. Lister, M. A venomous scratch with the Tooth of a Porpus. <^PMlo8. Trans., 

 Abridged hg Loiothorp [16G5-1700], ii, 1722, p. 842. 



From Philos. Trans. Lond. [xix], no. 233, p. 720. [183.] 



1722. MOLINEUX, G. Several Things in Ireland in common with the West Indies. 

 <^PInlos. Trans., Abridged hg Lotvthorp [1665-1700], iii, 1722, pp. 544-546. 

 From Philos. Trans. Lond. [xixj, no. 227, pp. 507[-511]. See supra, this author, at 1G97. 

 Eelatcs to that portion only of Dr. Molyneux's discourse which treats of ambergris, sper- 

 maceti, and certain plants found in Ireland. [184.] 



1722. Stafford, R. [Concerning Spermaceti Whales about the Bermudas.] <^PInIos. 



Trans., Abridged by Lowthorp [1665-1700], ii,1722,p. 845. 



From Philos. Trans. Lond. [iii], no. 40, p. 793 [=792-795]. Seest/jjrd, this author, at 1668. 



[185.1 



1723. ZORGDRAGER, C. G. "Alte und neue Gronlandische Fischerei nnd Wallfischfang 



mit einer kurzen histor. Beschreibung von Gronlaud, Island, Spitsbergen, Nova 

 Zembla u. s. w. ausgefertigt durch A. Moubach. Aus dem Holliindischen 

 iibersetzt. Leipzig, 1723. 4°. Met kaarteu en platen." 



Not seen ; title from Bos.^oed, op. cit, p. 253, no. 3616. [186.] 



[1724.] BOYi..sroN. Ambergris found in Whales. <^Philos. Trans. Lond., xxxiii, no. 

 385 [1724], p. 19:?. 



The writer. Dr. Boylston. of Boston, Mass., states thiit according to the testimony of whale- 

 men ambergris is found in a cyst near the genital parts of Whales — probably the first an- 

 nouncement of its real source. [187.] 



1725. Dudley, Paul. An Essay upon the Natural History of Whales, with a particu- 

 lar Account of the Ambergris found in the Sperma Cell Whale. In .a letter to 

 the Publisher, from the Honourable Paul Dudley, Esq.; F. R. S. <^Plnl. 

 Trans. Lond., xxxiii, no. "87, "for the Months of March and A^iril, 1725" (vol- 

 ume dn.ted 172G), pp. 25G-2G9. 



"But here I would have it noted, that the following Account respects only such Wh.ilo, as 

 are found on the Coast oi New England " (p. 25G). This short account of 14 pp. is the first of 

 importance relating especially to the Whales of the New England co.Tst, iu fact, is .ilmo.'ittho 

 only one to the present dote. The "divers Sorts or Kind.s " mentioned .are, I . The " Hight. or 

 "Whalobono Whale" (pp. 2o6, 257); 2. The " Scrag Whale " ; 3. The Finback Whale"; 4. 

 The "Bunch or humpback Wlwlo" (p. 258); 5. The "Sperma CcH Wh.alo" (pp. 2.58. 2.'in) ; 6. 

 The "Killer . . . without doubt the Orca that Dr. Frangius (lege Franzius) describes ..." 

 p. 265. 



Several of these became later the basis of species of systematic writers. Although de- 

 scribed briefly, their characters are so well indicated that it is not difficult to identify the 

 spec'es in the light of present knowledge of the subject. Otli'M- portions of the memoir are 

 devoted to .an account of "Sperma Ccti Oil" (pp. 2,59, 260), "of the Ambergris" (pp. 2C&-2C9), 

 to the habits of Wlinles. and to the "Way nnd Manner of killing Wh;ilc .'<." 



On the Killer of Dudley, cf. IIamel, Proceed. Am. Assoc. Adc. Sc, viii, 1855. [IGC.] 



