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When the stomach was opened, numerous beaks of cuttlefish 
were found in it. But in addition a quantity of fish-hooks of 
various sizes were observed, ranging from those used for catching 
haddocks to the largest size made for use in Shetland and the Faroe- 
Islands for the capture of halibut. It would seem, therefore, as if 
the animal had also lived on fish, and had cleared the fishermen’s 
lines, and swallowed the fish and the hooks to which they were 
attached. 
Mr Anderson writes me that a careful search in the intestine of 
the Shetland specimen for ambergris was made, but without 
success. He states that the fishermen told him that in flensing 
the whale they found hair in places rooted in the skin ; but as no 
portion of the skin was preserved, neither he nor I was able to put 
this statement to the test of observation. 
The lower jaw enables one to form a good idea of the magnitude 
of the animal, and in the following table I have placed side by 
side measurements of the Shetland specimen, one caught some 
years ago in Loch Scavaig, Isle of Skye, now in the Anatomical 
Museum of the University, and one in the Museum of Science and 
Art, Edinburgh. 1 
Shetland. 
Skye. 
Museum 
of Science 
and Art. 
Length of mandible, 
Ft. In. In. 
16 3 (195) 
In. 
1904 
In. 
196 
Length of symphysis, 
10 3 (123) 
116 
120 
Width between inner border of 
condyls, 
5 i (604) 
Width between outer border of 
condyls, .... 
6 7 (79) 
Greatest girth of ramus, . 
4 9 (57) 
56 
54 
The length of the mandible in Physeter macroc&phalus was 
taken in the way adopted by Sir William H. Flower. 2 A lino 
1 See my paper in Proc. Boy. Soc. Eclin ., vol. vii. p. 635. 
2 “Osteology of the Cachalot or Sperm Whale,” Trans. Zool. Soc. Lond. y 
vol. vi. part vi. p. 320, 1868. 
