R. BROWN ON THE CETACEA OF GREENLAND. 85 



Popular names. — Sperm- Whale (English) ; Kegutilik ov Kigute* 

 lirksoak (Greenlanders). It is probably also the Potvisch (Norse), 

 and Tweld-Hval (Icelandic). 



Though currently reported in all compilations as one of the 

 xnost common animals of the Arctic seas, and especially of Davis 

 Strait and Baffin's Bay, it can only be ranked as a very rare, and 

 possibly accidental, straggler. Whatever it was formerly, it is 

 now only known to Davis Strait whalers by name ; many will even 

 ridicule the notion of its being an inhabitant of those seas. I 

 found very few Eskimo who knew it even by tradition ; and I 

 could only hear of one recent instance of its being killed on the 

 coast of Greenland, viz. near Proven (72° N. lat.) in 1857. Ac- 

 cording to Fabricius, however, it is generally found in the more 

 southern parts of Davis Strait. 



7. Delphinits euphrosyne. Gray. 



Delphinus holbcellii, Eschricht, Skand. Naturf. Mode i Kjoben- 

 havn, 1847, p. 611. 



This species is only known as a member of the Greenland fauna 

 by a skeleton from South Greenland. It is apparently unknown 

 to the natives, for they have no popular names for it. 



8. Lagenorhynchus albirostris, Gray. 



Delphinus ibsenii, Eschricht, Unders. over Hvald. 5*^ Afh. i 

 Vid. Selsk. Nat. Math. Afh. xii. 297. 



This is only known as a Cetacean of Davis Strait by a skeleton 

 from Greenland in the Copenhagen Museum. It is found also in 

 the Faroe Islands, and in various portions of the North Sea. 



9. Lagenorhynchus leucopleurus (Rasch), Gray. 



Dr. Gray* has referred a skeleton from Greenland in Mr. 

 Brandt's collection to this species, and on his authority solely I 

 claim it as a member of the Greenland fauna. We possess no 

 particulars of its history as an Arctic animal. The Norwegians 

 know it as the Qwitskjceving. 



10. Orca gladiator (Bonn.), Sund. 



Delphinus orca (L.) ; 0. Fab. Fauna Groenl. p. 46 ; Reinhardt, 

 Naturh. Tillceg til Rink's geog. og stat. Breskrev. af Gronl. p. 12. 

 Physeter microps, Fab. F. G. no. 27. 



Popular names. — Grampus, Killer, Sioordjish (English sea- 

 men) ; Spdckhuggare, Svdrdfisk, (Swedes) ; Stourvagn, Staur- 

 hyning (Norse) ; Ardluik or Ardluk $ , Ardlurksoak ^, (Green- 

 landers). In all probability the " Pernak,^^ or Parnak {Physeter 

 catodon, 0. Fab.), is also to be referred to Orca gladiator, Hr. 

 Fleischer assurred me that it was an Orca, but only known to him 

 by name. Curiously enough, the Kamschatdales and Aleutians 



* Zool. Erebus and Terror, p. 34, t. 3; Cat. Seals and Whales (1866), 

 p. 273. 



