TION. 



GRAMPUS DOLPHIN. Class IV. 



3. Grampus. Orca Plinii, Kb. ix. c. 6. 18. Wil. Icth. 40. Rail 



L'oudre ou grand marsouin. Syn. pise. 15. 



Belon, 13. L'Epaulard. Brisson Cel. 236. 



Orca. Rondel. 483. Gesner Le Dauphin Orque. De la 



pise. 635. Leper, Springer. Cepede. Hist, des Cet. 298. 



Schonevelde, 53. tab. 15. Jig. 1. 



Butskopf. Marteri '5 Spitzberg. Delphinus orca. Gt». Z?«. 



93. 231. 



Balaena minor utraque maxilla Lopare, Delphinus rostro sur- 



dentata. Sib. Phalain. 17> sum repando, deiitibus latis 



serratis. Arted. Syn, 106. 



DEscRir- J_HIS species is found from the length of 

 fifteen feet to that of twenty-five. It is remark- 

 ably thick in proportion to its length, one of 

 eighteen feet being in the thickest place ten 

 feet diameter. With reason then did Pliny call 

 this an immense heap of flesh, armed with 

 dreadful teeth. * It is extremely voracious, and 

 will not even spare the porpesse, a congenerous 

 fish. It is said to be a great enemy to the 

 whale, and to fasten on it like a dog on a bull, 

 till the animal roars with pain. 



The nose is flat, and turns up at the end. 

 There are j" thirty teeth in each jaw; those before 



* Cujus imago nulla representatione exprimi possit alia, quam 

 carnis immensse dentibus truculentis. Lib. IX. c. 6. 



f Artedi counted forty in the lower jaw: in a specimen pre- 

 served in the French museum, the number of teeth in each jaw 

 did not exceed twenty-two. Ed. 



