Class IV. BOTTLE-HEAD HYPEROODON. 85 



GENUS IV. HYPEROODON.* 



Teeth or protuberances on the palate. 

 Fin dorsal, one. 



Hyperoodon Butskopf. De la Goose-beaked Whale. Pontop. 1 . Bottle- 



Cepede. Hist, des Cet. 3ig. Norway, 123. head. 



Butskopf. Marten s Spitzherg. But-head. Egede's Greenland. 



124. 75. 



Bottle-head, or Flounders- Beaked Whale. Brit. Zool. 



head. Dale's Harwich, 411. 4to. iii. 53. 



tab. 14. 



JLHIS species was taken near Maldon, 1717, 

 and thus described by Dale and Marten. 



The length was fourteen feet, the circum- Descrip- 

 ference seven and an half; the body very thick ; 

 the head like that of a dolphin ; the forehead 

 high, the nose depressed, and of the same thick- 

 ness in its whole length, not unlike the beak 

 of a bird ; in the mouth were no teeth ; the eyes 

 were large, the eyelids small, and placed a little 

 above the line of the mouth ; the spout-hole 

 was on the top of the head, semicircular, with 

 the corners pointed towards the tail. The pec- 



* A genus formed by de la Cepede from the circumstance of 

 the teeth being placed upon the palate. En. 



