}6, MAMMALIA. CETE. 25. 



little behind the eyes : dorfal-fin 3 or 4 feet long, a little falcate, 

 acute : lobes of the ta?71anceolate. 



50. B. Boops. Spiracles placed on the snout: back 

 with a cartilaginous protuberance near the tail. 



Pike-headed Whalei Shaw Zool. t. 227. 



Body about 46 feet long, and 20 in circumference, black above, 

 white beneath : belly with numerous longitudinal plaits which are 

 red on the inside : fore-part of the back convex and sloping down 

 to the fnout ; upper-jaw a little rounded, furnished with numerous 

 Jaminae of whalebone about a foot long : lower-jaw rather narrower 

 ami acute; tongue 5 feet long, wrinkled, liver-coloured: noftnls 

 with 3 rows of circular convexities before them : eyes placed behind 

 the fpiracles: ears minute, behind the eves: /piracies feparated by 

 a thin partition : pectoral-fins large, obovate-oblong, with rounded 

 crenatures on the anterior part ; dorfal-fin of a fatty-cartilaginous 

 substance, placed above the vent, nearly perpendicular, behind 

 which is a sharp ridge reaching to the tail : lobes ofthe tail ob- 

 long, slightly pointed. 



51. B. Mmculus. Spiracles on the front : lower- jaw 

 much wider than the upper. 



Round-lipped Whale. Sib. Phalain. 33. tab. T. 3. 



Body 7 S feet long, and 35 in circumference, black above, white 

 beneath : lower-lip much broader than the upper, femicircularly 

 turned up, with black laminae of whalebone about 3 feet long : up- 

 per-lip rather pointed: tongue 15 feet and a half long; fpiraeles 

 pyramidal, on the forehead : pectoral-fins 10 feet long ; dorfal-fin 

 fat, about 3 feet high : tail 18 feet broad : belly full of plaits. 



52. B. rostrata. Snout elongated, gradually tapering tp 

 a point : dorsal-fin fatty., 



Roftrated Whale. Shaw Natural MifceL 9. tab. 304. 



Body about 25 feet long, very thick, dark blueish-brown above, 

 white with a pale tinge of flesh-colour beneath, with numerous lon- 

 gitudinal plaits for about half its length : upper-jaw thinner than the 

 lower, with a single tooth each side ; nofe long, deprefsed, nearly of 

 the fame thicknefs its whole length : pectoral-fins fmall, narrow : 

 dorfal-fin fmall, near the tail : lobes of the tail rather long, pointed. 



25. PHYSETER. Cachalot. 



53. Ph. macrocephalus. Spiracle on the neck: back without 

 fin. 



Blunt-headed Cachalot. Penn. 3. t. 6. Shaw t. 228. 



Body nearly 60 feet long, and 30 in girth, black, whitish under- 

 neath When advanced in age : head enormous, conftituting a third 

 part ofthe whole body, and feparated from it by a tranfverfe furrow: 

 upper-jaw extremely blunt, nearly perpendicular, and about 9 feet 

 high : lower-jaw thin and rather sharp, shorter than the. upper, con- 

 taining on each side 23 conic rather obtufe teeth which fit into cor- 

 refpondent fockets in the upper : tongue the shape ofthe lower-jaw, 

 clay-coloured : fpiracle simple externally, double within, feated on 

 an angular prominence : back fometimes convex fometimes with a 

 gibbofity : eyes small, black, remote from the nofe, placed about 

 halfway down the head: ears very fmall: pectoral-fins placed near 

 the corners of the mouth, about 3 feet long : lobes of the tail point- 

 ed. In a vast cavity in the head is found the fubftance czMe&fpcrma- 

 ceti, and in the inteftines ambergris . 



54. Ph. Catodon. Spiracle at the, extremity of the snout: 

 back without fin: 



Round-headed Cachalot. Shaw 2. p. 501. Penn. 3. p. 63. 



Body about 24feet long : head rounded : mouth fmall : back without 

 ■ftn or portuberance, instead of which is a rough space : teeth larger 

 and flat at top, marked with concentric circles.] 



