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PHYSETER. CACHALOT. 



Generic Character* 



Denies in maxilla mferiore. 

 Fistula in capite s. fronte. 



Teeth visible in the lower jaw 

 only. 



Spiracle on the head or snout- 



BLUNT-HEADED CACHALOT. 



Physeter Macrocephalus. T . dor so impinni, fistula in cercice*, 



Lin, Sj/st. Rat. p. 107. Artedi, Gen, 78. Syn, 108. 

 Cachalot with finless back, and spiracle on the neck. 

 Balaena. Jonst. pise. p. 215. t. 41, 42. Will, ichth. t. A, i.f. 3. 

 The Spermaceti Whale. Brown Jam. p. 459. 

 Blunt-headed Cachalot. Pennant Brit, Zool. p. ^9. 

 The Parmacitty Whale, or Pot Wal Fish. Dale Harw. p. ^13. 



HIS Whale, which is one of the largest spe- 

 cies, is scarcely inferior in size to the great Mys- 

 ticete, often measuring sixty feet or more in 

 length. The head is of enormous size, constitut- 

 ing more than a third of the whole animal ; the 

 mouth wide ; the upper lip rounded, thick or high, 

 and much broader than the lower, which is of a 



* This expregsiop, according tot FabriciuSj is not quite correct, 



