312 WHALES. 



Account of the Tiie grampus has the snout " spreading upwards/* accord- 

 small whales jng to Shaw*; "waved upwards." accordinfr to Stewartf; 

 whjch trc quent ** ^ 7 „ r- • 1 . 



the north coast " ^ursu?n repanUo, as Linngeus expresses it. But this charac- 



ofScoiland,&c. ter was not to be found in the ca'ing whales, in which the nose 

 was neither spread nor turned up at the end, but rounded and 

 dropping. But I must remark, that La Cepede (the able con- 

 tinuator of Buftbn's " Histoire Naturelle," and whose general 

 accuracy is great) takes no notice whatever of the " waving 

 or spreading upwards," the " sursum repando," mentioned by 

 preceding authors. 



In the grampus, according to Shaw, " the lower jaw is 

 much wider than the upper," in tlie ca'ing whale: however, 

 we find that " the upper jaw is tlie widest." 



The grampus is said, in books, to have thirty teeth in each 

 jaw; the Uvea-Sound whales had only twenty-four in each 

 jaw. B' t La Cepede remarks, that the number of visible 

 teeth varies with the age of the animal. 



In Dr. Shaw's figure of the grampus (which, I must confess, 

 is mferior in accuracy to that of La Cepede), the pectoral fins 

 are short and round; according to La Cepede, they are 

 " iarges et presqm ovakit." In the ca'ing whale they are 

 said to be long and narrow," — thus bearing more resemblance 

 to those of the Delphinus gladiator (to be afterwards spoken 

 Of). 



" The back fin," says Dr. Shaw, '' measures six feet in 

 height." In the largest of the Uvea whales it did not exceed 

 two teet. La Cepede does not make it so long as Shaw. 



The eye of the ca'ing whale, I am informed, was placed 

 higher in the head than in Shaw's figure ; and the spiracle, as 

 we have seen, was " situated in a small hollow at the back of 

 the head," and behind the eye : no such hollow is delineated 

 in Dr. Shaw's plate; but this is probably an oversight, as it 

 is distmctiy depicted in La Cepede's representation of the 

 same animal. 



The Uvea whales had not the white spot on each shoulder, 

 near the eye, described as appearing in the grampus, and 



figured 



* " General Zoology," in lofo. 

 f " Elements of Naiural History," 2 vols. 8vo. 

 + " Histoire ITaLurelle des Cetacces, ^m ic c^toyen L» Cepede/ 

 p. 301, 4t&. Paris, I'iin xii. 



