COPE ON CETACEA FEOM GREENLAND 93 



Popular names. — Bottle-nose or Bottlie (English whalers) ; 

 Nabbhvdl (Scandinavians) ; Andarnejia (Icelanders) ; Dogling 

 (Faroe-islanders); Anarnak (Greenlanders). 



This is undoubtedly the Monodon spurius of Fabricius, that 

 author having made the not uncommon mistake of describing the 

 upper for the lower jaw. As it is a rare animal on the Greenland 

 coast, Fabricius could have been but little acquainted with it. This 

 Whale is only seen about the mouth of Davis Strait, swimming 

 in threes or fours ; it is occasionally captured, as one will yield as 

 much oil as a Narwhal. One ship's crew some years ago killed 

 fifteen, and the oil was represented to me as mixing well with 

 spermaceti, and selling for the same price, viz. \0s. 6d. per gallon.. 



16. Hyperoodon latifron?, Gray. 



Lagenocetus latifrons, Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1864, p. 241. 



This species is known from skulls and skeletons in various 

 museums ; and as an Arctic animal from a skull brought from 

 " Greenland " by Capt. Wareham, and now in the Newcastle 

 Museum, and by a skeleton from the same region in the Copen- 

 hagen University Museum. Greenland, however, is a loose term ; 

 but from what I have said as to the range and habits of H. 

 butzkof, we may safely conclude that this has been obtained in 

 Davis Strait. I am not aware that we have any external charac- 

 ters to separate it from the preceding, but yet the apparently 

 constant distinction presented by the skull would lead us to 

 believe in its distinctness. Therefore, though we may not go so 

 far as Eschricht in believing it to be the male of H. butzkof, 

 yet we must hesitate before joining in the opinion of even such 

 an experienced zoologist as Dr. Gray as to its claim to generic 

 rank. 



V. — On some Cetacea of Greenland. By Dr. E. D. Cope 

 and Dr. I. I. Hayes. (From the Proceedings Acad. 

 Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, Dec. 1865, p. 274.) 



" He also alluded to the existence of several species of White 

 Whales, probably confounded hitherto, owing to their uniform 

 coloration. Similar uniformity exists in various genera, as CorvuSy 

 ChasmarhyncJms, etc. A species brought by Dr. I. I. Hayes, 

 from Upernavik, was called Beluga rhinodon, and a large one 

 presented by Dr. E. K. Kane was characterized under the name 

 B, concretar 



" Dr. I. I. Hayes stated that the two skulls, mentioned, by 

 Prof. Cope as belonging to the genus Beluga, brought by him 

 from Greenland, were obtained from the Governor of Upernavik, 

 as those of the * White Whale.' He also observed, that during his 

 voyage he had seen the White Whale abundantly as far north as 

 78° N. lat." 



