$5$ MAMMALIA. CETE. Whale. 



1 1. — Unicornu marinum. Muf. "Worm. 282. 283. — Narhwal. Klein, mifc. pifc. ii. 18. t. 2. f. c. 



Eenhorn, Narhwal. Anderf. ifl. 225. Crantz. groenl. 146. Mart, fpitz. 94. — Eenhorning, Narhvah 

 Lioorne. Egede, groenl. 56. 



Inhabits the northern part of the Atlantic Ocean. — This animal is reprefented by fome authors as 

 meafuring from twenty to twenty-two feet in length, while others fay that it reaches to forty, or even 

 fixty feet long, and twelve feet broad ; it is particularly noted for its horn or horns, as they are call- 

 ed, which are real teeth ; of thefe there are always two in young animals, though the old ones have 

 generally only one, fometimes none. In the fpecimen belonging to the Edinburgh Mufeum there is 

 only one, which is placed rather on one fide, and no veftige of a focket for the other ; but then it is 

 a general fa£l: that lockets become obliterated after the teeth which grew from them are deftroyed. 

 From this circumftance of only one tooth being ufually found, the animal has acquired the name of 

 Monodon, Unicorn Fifh, or Sea Unicorn. This extended tooth perforates the upper jaw, and is a 

 very powerful weapon of offence ; there are even many inftances of the tooth having been found in 

 the bottoms of fhips which returned from the northern feas, probably owing to the Narval having 

 miftaken the fhip for a Whale, and attacked it with fuch fury as not to be able to get out the wea- 

 pon from the wood. The head is fmalj, with very minute eyes; the back has no fin, and the two 

 fins on the breaft are very fmall ; the fkin is white with black fpots on the back, and has a great 

 quantity of blubber underneath. The Narval fwims with very great velocity, and, though by n« 

 means fcarce in the feas about Greenland, is very feldom killed. 



XL VI. WHAL E.— 45. BALMNA. 38. 



Has no teeth, inftead of which the upper jaw is provided with 

 horny laminae, called M^hale-bone. The fpiracle has two 

 openings on the top of the head. 



1. Common Whale. — 1. Balaena Myjl'icetus. 1. 



The noftrils, on the fore part of the head, are much contorted, and the back has no fin. 

 Arted. gen. 76. Syn. 106. Faun. fuec. 49. 



786 a. Greenland Common Whale. — B. Myfticetus groenlandica. 



Of a blackiih colour on the back and white on the belly. Briff. regn. an. 347. n. r. 



Balaena groenlandica. Muf. ad. fr. i. 5 1 . Gron. zooph. 139. — B. major, B. bipinnis Sibbaldi, et B. 

 vulgaris edentula. Raj. pifc. 16. et 6. — B. vera. Klein, mifc. pile. ii. 1 1. Wilioughb. pifc. 38. 35. — 

 B. vulgaris, Mufculus. Rondel, pifc. 475. — B. vulgaris, Myfticetus Ariftotelis, Mufculus Plinii. 

 Gefn. aqu. 132. — B. vulgaris. Charlet, ex. pifc. 46. — B. vulgi. Muf. worm. 281. Jonft. pifc. 2f6". 

 Aldrov. pifc. 688. — Balaena. Plin. hift. nat. ix. c. 6. 7. 13. Schonev. ichth. 24. Aldrov pifc. 675. 

 f. p. 677. 682. Sibb. Scot. an. 23. — **a«i»«. Arift. hift. an. i. c. 5. iii. c. 16. Aelian. an. v. c. 4. — 

 ItusTKtTaf. Arift. hift. an. iii. c. 10. — Hvalfifk. Egede, groenl. f. p. 48.— Wallfilh. Mart, fpitzb. 

 98. t. Q^ f. a. b. — Groenlandifche Wallfilh. Anderf. ifl. 212. Crantz, groenl. 141. — Common 

 Whale. Penn. Brit. zool. iii. n. 16. Arft. zool. fup. 101. n. 51. — Whalebone Whale. Dudley, 

 phil. tranf. abr. vii. 424. 



