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Tonsberg Museum. The other, one of a herd of four sperm 
whales, was captured off the Faroe Islands. It was a male, 
twenty metres long, obviously full grown, and its skeleton is in 
the Museum at Copenhagen. In the early summer of 1896 a 
herd of seven was seen near the coast of East Finmark, and of 
these two were captured; one was a young male 12*8 metres long, 
and its skeleton is in the Natural History Museum at Berlin ; the 
other, a female, was 10 metres long. A third specimen was taken 
in the same summer in Baadsfjord ; it was a male, 15 metres long, 
and the skeleton is in the Bergen Museum. 
In 1899 a herd of sperm whales was seen in the neighbourhood 
of the Faroes, but they escaped capture. In the summer of 1901 
a sperm whale between 60 and 70 feet long was seen north-east 
of the Faroe Islands, and after an exciting chase was captured. 
The sex is not stated, but from its length it was probably a male. 
In August 1901 Captain Albert Gron observed a herd of about 
ten sperm whales in the neighbourhood of the Faroes, one of 
which was harpooned, but escaped ; it is not unlikely that the 
Shetland specimen, which had been struck by a harpoon, and was 
found floating dead during the same month, was this animal. 
From these examples it is evident that the seas to the north and 
east of Shetland have of late years been frequented by the 
sperm whale in considerable numbers. 
The presence of quantities of beaks of cuttlefish in the stomach 
of the specimen from Shetland corroborates the observations made 
of late years that sperm whales live largely on Cephalopoda. But 
the hooks found in considerable numbers in its stomach point also 
to a fish diet. Mr Frank T. Bullen, in the Cruise of the Cachalot , 
states that during the cutting up of a sperm whale, in addition to 
dismembered squid of large size, a number of fish, such as rock 
cod, barracouta, sehnapper, and the like, were found in its stomach. 
Professor Guldberg relates that in the stomach of the old male 
captured in 1895, in addition to the remains of cuttlefish, a portion 
of the spine of a large fish, a fish-hook and some stones, there was 
about a square foot of the skin of a seal, with its hairs and four of 
its claws. In the stomach of the young male caught in 1896 off 
East Finmark a gelatinous and cartilaginous mass several feet long 
was found. It consisted of the half digested portions of a 
