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long, from measuremente ; with details of the manner of flenching 

 or peeling it. His figure agrees with Beale's in proportions. It was 

 caiught in the North Pacific, near Point Angles, on the coast of 

 Mexico. This figure escaped Cuvier's researches. 



Purchas says the Sperm Whale is found at Bermuda, where it is 

 called Trumpo, a name which Lacep^de applied to the Northern 

 animal. An anonymous writer in the ' Philosophical Transactions,' 

 i. 132, and Dudley, describe them as found on the east coast of North 

 America. 



The Japanese distinguish three varieties of this animal, according 

 to their size. They hve in herds on the Japanese coast. — Faun. 

 Ja-pon. 



A whale's tooth is highly prized in Fiji, being used in augury by 

 the priests, and was formerly a sort of currency. — Bensusan, Jowm. 

 Boy. Geogr. Soe. 1862, 48. 



" The crown jewels of Viti were kept in a wooden box, in charge 

 of the widow of the late Governor of Namose : first, there was a 

 necklace of whale's teeth, the first that ever came to the mountain ; 

 secondly, a large whale's tooth, highly polished, and carefully wrapped 

 up in cocoa-nut fibre (whale's teeth are in Kji what diamonds are 

 with us) ; thirdly, a canniTjal's foot, in the shape of a club, and bear- 

 ing the name of Strike twice, i. e. first the man and then his flesh." 

 — Seemann, Journ. Boy. Geogr. Soe. 1862, 62. 



1. Catodon macrocephalus. The Northern Sperm Whale. 



Black, becoming whitish below. 



Trumpo, Phil. Trans, i. 132. 



Catodon Trumpo, Gerard, Diet. Sci. Nat. vi. 57; Lac4p. CU. 212. 



t. 10. f. 2. 

 De Balssna macrocephala quae binas tantum pinnas laterales habet, 



SihhaM, Phal. 12. 

 Balaena major in inferiore tantum maxilla dentata macrocephala 



bipinnis, Raii Pise. 15. 

 Cetus bipinnis supra niger, etc., Brisson, Cefe, 357. 

 Catodon fistula in cervice, Artedi, Syn. 

 Catodon macrocephalus, Zacip. CM. 1. 10. f. 1 ; Gray, Cat. Cetac. B.M, 



1850, 49; Proc. Zool. Soe. 1863; 1864, 231. 

 Sperm Whale, Anderson, Cambridge Phil. Tram. ii. 250. 1. 12 (view of 



animal), 1. 13 (cranium and lower jaw), 1. 14 (side view of head) ; 



Jackson, Boston Journ. N. IT. ,v. 137. 1. 14 (stomach). 

 Spermaceti Whale, Dudley, Phil. Trans, xxxii. 258 ; Gent. Mag. 1794, 



33. 1. 1. 

 Blunt-head Cachalot, Mobertson, Phil. Trans. Ix. t. 

 Physeter Catodon, O. Fabr. Faun. Orosd. 44, and Mobertson, not lAnn. : 



T. Thompson, Mag. N. Hist. 1829, ii. 471. f. 114 (bad). 

 Physeter Trumpo, Bonnat. CStac. t. 8. f. 1, from Robertson, copied 



Reiehenb. Cetac. t. 4. f. 12 (anat. t. 10) ; Fischer, Syn. Mamm. 518. 

 Physeter macrocephalus, Linn, S. N. i. 107 ; O. Fabr. Faun. Grcenl. 41; 



Shaw, Zool. ii. 497. t. 228 ; ReicJienb. Cetac. 4. t. 4. f. 11 ; Schreb. 



Siiugeth. t. 337 a $ , t. 337 ;3 5 ; Gosse, Jamaica, 349; Turtrni, Fauna, 



16; Jenyns, Man. 44; Bell, Brit. Quad. 606. f. 511. 

 Cetus macrocephalus, Oken, Lehrb. Nat. 675. 



