PHOCAENA. 317 



Monodon 'monoceros. 



Monodon monoceros, Linnaeus Syst. Nat., 12th ed., i, p, joS (1766); Blyth 

 Cat. no. 276, p. 90 ; Floixer P, Z, S , 1883, P- S°4 ! 'd- ^'"s* Cetacea B. M., 

 p. 14. 



The Narwhal. 



Distribution. — Arctic Seas, north of 65° N. lat. 



a. Skelet. mtd. Lancaster Sound (Capt. Dundee Mus, [Ex.] 



McLennan in Steam- 

 whaler Narwhal, 7-76). 



b. Tooth Capt. Lumsden, 1820, 



A.S.B, 



Genus DELPHINAPTERUS. 



Delphinapterus, Lacepide Hist, Nat. CStaces Tabl. del Ord., p. xli (1804)*. 

 Beluga, Gray Spiceleg. Zool,, p. 2 (1828). 



Delphinapterus leucas. 



Delphinus leucas, Pallas Reise, iii, p. 85 (1776)*- 

 Balaena albicans, O. F. Mullef Zool. Dan. Prodr., p. 7 (1776)*. 

 Delphinapterus beluga, Lacepede Hist. Nat. Cetacea, p. 243 (1804)*, 

 Beluga catodon. Gray Zool. Ereb. & Terr., p. 29 (1846) ; Blyth Cat. no. 



27s, p. 90. 

 Delphinapterus leucas, i'Vower P.Z.S., p. 505 (1883); id. List Cetacea 



B. M., p. 14. 



The White Whale. 



Distribution. — Arctic Seas and perhaps the Australian coasts 

 (Delphinus kingi of Gray). 



a. Skull Greenland Copenhagen Mus., 1840, A.S.B. 



Genus PHOCAENA. 



Phocaena, G, Cuvier Regne Anim., ist ed., i, p. 279 (1817). 



Phocaena communis. 



Delphinus phocaena, Linnaeus Sysi. Nat., i2th ed., i, p. 108 (1766). 

 , Phocaena communis. Lesson Man. Mamm., p. 413 (1827); Blyth Cat. no. 271, 

 p. 88; Flower P. Z. S., 1883, p. 505; id. List Cetacea E. M., p. 15. 



Distribution.— Coasts of the North Atlantic, both European and 

 American, the species found in the North Pacific is probably dis- 

 tinct. 



a-b. 2 Skulls Greenland Copenhagen Mus. [Ex.] 



A.S.B. 

 c. Skeleton Christiania Univ., A.S.B. 



