Clas IV. HIGH-FINNED CACHALOT. 4) 
Ill. The ROUND-HEADED CACHALOT. 
Balanaminor ininferiore max- Le petit Cachalot. Brifon Cep, 
illa tantum dentata fine {pi- 222. 
na aut pinnain dorfo. Sib, Phyfeter Catodon. Lin. fit. 107. 
Phalain. 9. Kaii Syn. pifee Catodon fiftula in roftro, Ar- 
15- ted. fynon. 108. 
HIS fpecies was taken on one of the Orkney 
ifles, a hundred and two of different fizes being 
caft afhore at one time,-the largeft twenty-four feet 
in leneth. 
The head was round, the opening of the mouth 
{mall : Sibbald fays it had no fpout hole, but only 
noftrils, We rather think, that the former being 
placed at the extremity of the nofe was miftaken by 
_ him for the latter. 
The teeth,we have in our cabinet of this fpecies 
(plate iii. No. 4.) are an inch and three quarters 
iong, and in the largeft part, of the thicknefs of 
one’s thumb. The top is quite flat, and marked 
with concentric lines; the bottom is more flender 
than the top, and pierced with a fimall orifice. 
‘The back fin was wanting; inflead was a rough 
{pace. 
IV, The HIGH-FINNED CACHALOT: 
Balana macrocephala tripin- nentes. Sib. Phalain. 18. 
nis, qua in manaibula in- Raii fyn, pifc. 16. 
feriore dentes habet minus Le Cachalot a dents plattes. 
inflexos et in planum defi- Brifan. Cet. 230. 
NE of this fpecies was caft on the Orkney ifles 
in 1687. The fpout hole was placed in 
front, and on the middle of the back was a high 
fin, 
Teeth, 
