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H A R K. 



250 Picked. Br. Zool. III. 77. 



Er. Doulagi Cuu. 



T70UND in great multitudes on xhtScottip 

 ^ coafls •, and when dried a great article 

 of food with the common people. Called 

 in Sky the Blind-hive, and is fuppofed to be 

 a great reflorative. 



251 Bafking, Br. Zool III. 78. 



Er. Cairhan, 



npHE greateil of the genus ; fometimes 

 -■^ above 36 feet long : the length of one 

 I found dead near Locb-Ran/ay in Arran, 

 was 27 f. 4, firft dorfal fin 3, fecond i, pec- 

 toral 4, ventral 2 feet long, upper lobe of 

 the tail 5, lower 3. 



They appear in the Firth of Clyde^ and 

 among the Hebrides, about the month of 

 June, in fmall droves of feven or eight, but 

 oftner in pairs •, and continue in thofe feas 

 *till the latter end of July, and then difap- 

 pear : they fwim very deliberately, \Vith the 

 two dorfal fins above water : are very tame, 

 and fearlefs of mankind : will permit a boat 

 to follow them without accelerating theirr 

 motion, 'till it comes almoft within contad, 



when 



