1. HTPEROODON. 331 



6. Bottlenose Whale of Dale, Bmder, Phil. Trans. 1787, Ixxvii. t. 19 : 



cop. Bonnai. Cetac. 1. 11. f. 3, and Bell, Brit. Quad. 292. f. 

 Delphinus Hiinteri, Desm. Mamm. 520, 1822, from Hunter. 

 D. iodon, LacSp. CHac. 309. 1. 13. i. 3 ; Gh-ard, Diet. S. Nat. vi. 78. 

 D. bidentatus, Bmnat. (Mac. 1. 11. f. 3, 1789; Besm. N. Diet. ix. 175, 



from Hunter. 

 Hyperoodon bidens, Flem. B. A. 36 ; Jemjns, Man. 44. 



7. B. a museau pointu. Camper, Cetac. 78. 1. 13-16. 



Hyperoodon, Cuv. Oss. Foss. v. 321. t. 24. f 19, 21, copied from 



Camper, 1. 13. 

 Hyperoodon, " Voifft's Mem. t.," 1801 ; F. Cuv. Cetac. 245 (skull, Kiel 



Bot. Gard.). 



8. Cetodiodon Hunteri, Jacob, Dublin Phil. Joum. 1826, t. 

 Hyperoodon Hunteri, Gray, Ann. Sf Mag. N. H. 



9. Hyperoodon Honfloriensis, Thompson, Mag. N. Hist. 1838, ii. 221. 

 H. bidens, Thompson, Ann. ^ Mag. N. Hist. 1854, xiv. 347. 



10. Hyperoodon Butskopf, Jacob, Proc. Dublin Assoc. 1, 4 (Belfast, 2O5 ft.). 



11. Uperodon Butskof, Gervais, Zool. Sr Pal. Fi-ang. t. 38 (skull, good). 



12. H. Butzkopf, W. Thompson, Ann. Sf Mag. 2f. Hist. 1846, xvii. 150. t. 4. 



{. 1; Gray, Cat. Cetac. B. M. 1850, 62; P. Z. S. 1862; BeU, Brit. 

 Quad. 492, 493, fig. 

 Cbenocetua rostratus, Malmgren, Arch. Nat. 1864, 92. 



13. Hyperoodon rdstratum, Wesmael, N. M6m. Acad. FLm). Brux. 1840, xii. 



1. 1, 2 (good); Gray, Cat. Cetac. B. M. 1850, 64. 

 Nebhyalen, Eschricht, K. Dansk. Fid. Selsk. xi. 327, 328, flg. 

 Delphinus Hyperoodon, Sehlegel, De Dieren, 94 ; Abhandl. 28. 

 Hyperoodon borealis, Nilsson, Skand. Fawna, 622. 

 Hyperoodon rostratus, lAlljeborg. 



Inhab. North Sea, ascending rivers : Thames {Hvnter) ; Humber 

 {Thompson). Harwich (Dale). 



a. Teeth. Liverpool. 

 6, c. Skulls. Whitstable. 



The animal is one of the most generally caught ■whales on our 

 coast. The following habitats have been verified from the exami- 

 nation of specimens': — Harwich (Dale). Thames, above London 

 Bridge, 1783 (Hunter); skeleton, Mus. CoU. Surgeons. Whitstable 

 (Beardsworth) ; skuU and bones in British Museum. The Humber, 

 near Hull, 1837 (Thompson) ; skeleton in Mus. Hull PhU. See. 

 Mouth of the Dee; skeleton, Mus. Royal Institution, Liverpool. 

 Dublin (Jacob) ; skeleton, Mus. CoU. Surgeons ; skuU, Eoyal Dublin 

 Society and Museum School of Anatomy. Belfast Lough, 29th Oct. 

 1845 ; skeleton in Belfast Museum of male 20 feet long (Ann. ^ 

 Mag. N. H. 1846, xvii. 160), with four teeth in lower jaw. Firth 

 of Forth, 29th Oct. 1839 ; skeleton in Edinb. University Museum : 

 female 28| feet long, in company with young suckling female 9 feet 

 long. 



In Fischer's ' Synopsis Mammalium,' p. 514, this species occurs 

 und^r three names— D. Dalei, D. Hyperoodon, and D.'i spurius. 



In the previous edition of this Catalogue I regarded the Bottle- 

 head or Flounder's-head of Dale (the Hyperoodon Butzkopf of Lace- 

 pede) as distinct from the Bottlenose Whale of Hunter, the Balcena 



