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Pelvis composed of three pieces, a middle and two slender ones, 

 whict are articulated one on each side of the former ("Wall, 1. 1. f. 4), 

 the middle bone being composed of two arched pieces. 



It is clear from "Wall's description of the skeleton of the Sperm 

 "Whale which lives on the coast of New HoUand that it is quite 

 distinct from the Northern one described by Beale and Cuvier. 



Mr. "Wall says " there were no vestiges of any alveoles in the skull 

 of a very young Sperm discovered on the beach near Botany (Bay) ; " 

 he suspects " that Mr. Bennett must have mistaken some kind of 

 Dolphin for a young Cachalot." Verj* unlikely, when we consider 

 that Dr. Bennett was a surgeon on board a "whaler. 



John Hunter states that there is only a single tube or canal from 

 the commencement for both nostrils. In some Dolphins there is 

 said to be a dividing membrane. 



Species wanting further examination. 



The Pacific Sperm Whale. 



Sperm "Whale, Colnet, Voyage, 80. f. 9 ; Beale, N. H. Sperm Whale, 



22. f. 1-14. 

 Physeter macrocephalus, Brandt Sf BMzeburg, Med. Zool. 1. 14. f. 3, 



from Colnet. 

 Spermaceti "Whale, Nunn, Narrat, Favourite, 40, 68 (fig. not good), 



175 ; Fauna Japonica P 

 Catodon Colneti, Gray, Cat. Cetac. B. M. 1850, 52. 



Inhab. North Pacific. Japan, South Seas {Nvnn). " Equatorial 

 oceans " (Lesson), 



The South African Sperm Whale. 



Catodon macrocephalus, A. Smith, African Zool. 127. 



Inhab. Mozambique Channel and South-east coast of Africa (A. 

 Smith), 



The Indian Sperm Whale. 

 Catodon macrocephalus, Blyth, Cat. Mm. A. S. 93. 



Inhab. Ocean ; occasionally hunted at the entrance of the Bay of 

 Bengal, within sight of Ceylon. 



Whales visit the Straits of Namoa regularly every May. They 

 are mostly cows, and are usually accompanied by their calves, some 

 30 or 30 feet long. Some of the adults attain the length of 70 feet. 

 At night they make a loud puflng noise resembling the sound pro- 

 duced by the piston of a steam-engine. At daytime they are seen 

 putting their long heads out of the water and opening their immense 

 jaws. 



Lacepede describes a whale, figured in some Chinese drawings, 

 under the name of Physeter sulcdtus, in Mem. Mus. iv. 474. 



