^6 PIKE-HEADED WHALE. Class IV* 



taken on our coafts, but when it was accidentally 

 flung afliore : it was then deemed a royal fi(h % 

 and the king and queen divided the fpoil; the 

 king afferting his right to the head, her majefty to 

 the tail f. 



17. Pike- Balsna trlpinnis nares habens La Baleine a mufeau pointa. 



HEADED. cum rollro acuto, et plicis Brijfon Get. 224. 



in ventre. Sib, Phalain 29. Balseiia fiftula duplici in roftra, 



tab, I. dorfo extreme protuberaiiti^ 



Idem. Rail fyn. fife. 16. cornuiformi. Arted, Jyn, 



Pike-headed Whale. Dale 107. 



Harwich, 410. No. 3. Balasna Boops. Lin. Jyji. 106. 



Size. ^"T^.HE length of that taken on the coaft of Scot- 

 i landy as remarked by Sir Robert Sibbald^ 

 was forty- fix feet, and its greateft circumference 

 twenty. 

 Descrip. The head of an oblong form, (loping down, and 

 growing narrower to the nofe-, fix feet eight inches 

 from the end of which were two fpout-holes, fepa- 

 rated by a thin divifion : the eyes fmall. 



The pedoral fins five feet long, and one and a 

 half broad : on the back, about eight feet and an 

 half from the tail, in lieu of a back fin, was a 

 hard horny protuberance : the tail was nine feet 

 and a half broad. 



* Item habet wareftum maris per totum regnum Balknas 



et Sfurgio^ies cz-ptosy kc. Ed^joardi II. anno ij mo, 1 



f Blackjicne^s Com. I. c. 4, 



The 



