360 MAMMALIA. CETE. Whale. 



794 6. Beaked Whale. — 6. Balaena rofirata. 6. 

 Has a foft fin on the back, and the nofe is peaked. 



Balaena roftrata minor. Muller, zool. dan. 7. n. 48. Chemniz, befchr. naturf. berl. iv. 183. 

 Klein, mifc. pifc. ii. 13. — Beaked "Whale, Penn. Brit. zool. iii. n. 20. Artt. zool. fup. 102. 

 n. 55. — Bottle-nofe Whale. Catefby, app. 32. 



Inhabits the Norwegian feas. — This fpecies has a confiderable refemblance to the Scrag Whale, 

 efpecially in the form of the fnout ; but, according to Chemniz, it has no Whale-bone in the mouth, 

 which has one tooth on each fide of the upper jaw, from which circumftances it more properly be- 

 longs to the fucceeding genus, though in that the teeth are placed in the lower jaw. It is of a very 

 clear black colour, and about twenty-five feet long ; fwims with amazing velocity, and appears to 

 have a very acute fight ; the lower jaw is confiderably thicker than the upper, and the fnout is very 

 long and fharp. 



XLV1I. CACHALOT.— 46. PHTSETER. 39. 

 Has teeth in the lower, and none in the upper jaw. 



795 1. Leffer Cachalot. — 1. Phyfeter Catodon. 1. 



Has no fin on the back; the blowing pipe is fituated on the fnout. Art. gen. 78. fyn. 108. 



Cetus minor, having two fins, and the pipe on the fnout. BrHT. regn. an. 361. n. 4. — Balaena 

 minor, having teeth in the lower jaw, without any fin or fpine on the back. Raj. pifc. 15. Sibb. 

 Scot. an. 24. 



Inhabits the northern Atlantic. — This fpecies differs from the Scrag Whale by wanting the horny 

 excrefcence on the back, and in having teeth in the lower jaw, but like it the fpiracle or pipe is pla- 

 ced on the fnout, like noftrils ; it is about twenty-four feet long, and has a round fhaped head, with 

 a fmall opening, or rictus, of the mouth. 



2. Blunt-nofed Cachalot. — 2. Phyfeter macrocephalus. 2. 

 Has too fin on the back ; the blowing pipe is fituated on the nape of the neck. 



Catodon, with the pipe on the neck. Art. gen. 78. fyn. 108. — Blunt-headed Cachalot. Penn. 

 Brit. zool. iii. n. 21. Arft. zool. fup. 102. n. 57 — Spermaceti Whale. Dudley, phil. tranf. abiv 

 vii. 42& 



796 a. Black Blunt-nofed Cachalot. — 2. a. Ph. macrocephalus niger. 

 Of a black colour, with a hump on the back. 



Cetus, having two fins, of a black colour on the back, and whitiih on the belly, with the fpi- 

 racle on the neck. Brifil regn. an. 357. n. 1. — Cete, named Pot-Walfifh, by the Hollanders, ancl 

 Balaena major macrocephala, having teeth only in the lower jaw. Raj. pifc. ii. and 15. — Balaena. 

 Jonft. pifc. 215. t. 4.1. 42. Willoughb. pifc. 41. t. A. 1. f. 3. — Cete admirabile. Cluf. exot. 131. — 

 Cetus dentatus. Muf. worm. 280. Charlet. ex. pifc. 4. Sibb. Scot. an. 23. — Cachelot. Klein,. 



mife. 



