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 Family VII. GLOBIOCEPHALID^.^ 



Head much swollen, globe-shaped ; forehead very prominent ; beak 

 scarcely visible ; dorsal fin falcate, central ; pectoral fins long, narrow, 

 placed near each other on the chest ; skull broad across supra-orbital 

 ridge ; intermaxillary bones very wide ; beak slightly over half of the 

 entire length of skull ; mandibular symphysis, very short (f length of 

 ramus, Q-. macrorhynchus) ; cervical vertebrse, anchylosed ; blade-bone 

 triangular, with large spinal processes; teeth conical, large, early 

 deciduous. 



Oerms G-lobiocephaitjs,^ Lesson. 

 " Skull, — palate flat ; beak rather tapering in front." — Gray. 

 GiOBiocEPHAiTTs' MELAS, Traill. The Deductor,^ or Caa'ing' Whale. 

 Synonyms — OlobiocepJialus melas, Traill. 



Cachalot svmeval, Lacepede, 1804. 

 DelpMnus fflohieeps, Cuvier, 1812. 

 Delphinus dedustor, Scoresby, 1820. 

 Glolioeephalus deductor. Lesson, 1827. Jardine, 1843. 

 Qrampus gloUoeps, Gray, 1828. 



QloUoaepJialus svineval. Gray, S.&"W. p. 314. Suppl. p. 83. 

 The Caa'mg Whale, NeiU, 1836. 

 Teeth, ijtri to i^r^, rarely ijir4, slightly curved at their tips. 

 Inhab. : North Sea. 



Colour, smooth and shining jet-black on the upper parts of the body, 

 somewhat paler underneath, relieved by a white streak from the throat 

 along the abdomen. The length varies from 6 to 26 feet ; the 

 pectoral fins are very long, 6 to 8 feet each, and narrow, being the 

 reverse to the exceedingly broad swimming paw of the O. gladiator. 



The food of the deductor is similar to that of the preceding animal, 

 namely, cuttle-fish, crustaceans and small fish ; and when the aliment is 

 plentiful, it becomes exceedingly fat, and affords a large quantity of 

 excellent and valuable oil. 



In their habits the members of this family appear to be the most 

 sociable of the cetacea, herding together in large flocks ; and in their 

 disposition very timid and wholly inoffensive. " In all instances on 

 record of their being discovered at sea, and hunted to land, the chase 

 has been free from danger, and a few frail boats and most ineffective 

 weapons, with shouts and noise in the water, were sufiicient to drive 

 them from their native element to their destruction." 



' globus, a globe, and K€(/)a\^, head. 



' dedacior, a follower (when one is driTen aahore the rest follow). 

 ' Prom the scotch, caa, signifying to drive, being the ordinary method of their 

 capture, viz., by driving them ashore. 



