ClafsIV. BEAKED WHALE, 43 
back fin about three feet high, placed near the tail, 
which was eighteen feet broad: the belly was full 
of folds 
This {pecies is faid to feed on herrings. 
Wey he: BEA KO By Day NNO EL Av Le Te, 
Butkopf. Marten’s Spitzberg. Dale Harwich, 411. tab. 14. 
124. ~  Nebbe-hual, or beaked whale. 
Bottle-head, or flounders-head. Pontop. Norway, 1. 123. 
HIS fpecies was taken near Maldon, 1717, and 
thus defcribed by Dale and Marten. 
The length was fourteen feet, the circum- 
ference feven and an half; the body very thick, 
the forehead high, the nofe deprefled, and of the 
fame thicknefs its whole length, not unlike the beak 
of a bird: in the mouth were no teeth. 
The eyes large, the eyelids fmall, and placed a 
little above the line of the mouth. The {pout hole 
was on the top of the head femicircular, with the 
corners pointed towards the tail. 
The pectoral fins were feventeen inches lone.’ 
The back was placed rather nearer the tail than the 
head, and was a foot lone: the breadth of the tail 
was three feet two inches. 
Thefe fith fometimes grow to the length of twenty 
feet; they make but little noife in blowing, are very 
tame, come very near the fhips, and will accompany 
them for a great way. | 
Belon defcribes and figures a fifh very much re- 
{embling, if not the fame with this: he fays it fur- 
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