DK. J. MUEIE 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. NeiP 

 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, wliere 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 bemg 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. GeiTard, 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 spii-its 

 and forwarcled 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. S. 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 (I. c.) ; and 

 see Van Beneden's account of a foetus in utero of the same species (BuU. Acad. Belg. torn. 7, 2ud ser., p. 439), 

 and of another from B. rostraia ; also Turner, in B. sibhaJdii (I. c. p. 203), and Orca gladiator (T. R. S. Edinb. 

 1871, p. 467); likewise Dr. Meig's "Observations on the Reproductive Organs and on the Foetus of the 

 Delphinus nesarnak," Journ. Acad. N. S. Philad. vol. i. part 3, Aug. 1849, p. 267, pis. 35, 36. 



^ During the autumn of 1867 I paid a visit to Stuttgart, and Professor Krauss then showed me the skeleton. 

 Its partiaDy macerated condition, however, forbade my doing more than making a memorandum concerning the 

 skuU. This agrees with the characters appertaining to the species, and in measurements nearly corresponds to 

 No. 3 in the College of Sus-geons, as given by Dr. Gray (Cat. Seals and Whales, 1866, p. 315). Extreme length 

 23j inches ; width 14| inches ; length of palate 11 1, and greatest diameter 7| inches; mandible 18 inches long 

 and inches deep at coronoid process ; narial aperture 4| antero-posteriorly, and 3| inches from side to side. 

 Kibs 11 — 11, of these four are attached to the sternum and one to the ensiform cartilage ; the remainder are 



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