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84 TWO-TOOTHED CACHALOT. Class IV. 



4. Two- Physeter bidens. Sowerby Br. Cepede. Hist, des Cet. 3(X). 



toothed. nji sc . ta j, m lt Hunter in Ph. Trans. 1787- 



Le Dauphin Diodon. De la 373. tab. \Q.* 



Descrip- [THIS species seems to unite the Cachalot with 

 the Dolphin genus ; the general form of the 

 body strongly resembles the characteristic ap- 

 pearance of the latter. The snout is flattened 

 and prolonged like that of the common Dolphin. 

 The teeth placed near the extremity of the 

 lower jaw are pointed ; the forehead is convex ; 

 the greatest circumference of the body is near 

 the pectoral fins, which are small and oval ; 

 the dorsal fin is situated near the tail, and is 

 rather pointed and bent backwards. The gene- 

 ral color is a blackish brown, growing lighter 

 towards the belly. The specimen described by 

 the late John Hunter did not exceed eleven 

 feet, and that figured by Sowerby, which was 

 caught on the coast of Scotland, did not measure 

 more than sixteen feet ; but it probably grows 

 to a much greater size. Ed. 



* Our illustrious naturalist refers this to the Bottle-head of 

 Dale. The greatest uncertainty still attends the arrangement of 

 the cetaceous tribe, and is likely to continue, from the difficulty 

 of examining these monsters of the deep, and from the avidity 

 with which they are mutilated, for the sake of their blubber, 

 when they are accidentally thrown on our shores. Ed. 



