t«o mmmem hy Captaii, Davi.l (imy, that Naturalists are injebtoj 
0 a solution of the prohlcm, as well as for much valuahio 
utonnatiou a.s to the habits of these creatures during their summer 
iHgration to tlio ({reenlaiul seas. 
colt ° "I'ieli luave occurrea on our 
.ist, have hitherto generally been adult females, frequently 
accompauied by a single young one. no adult male haviii" 
as hitherto been absolutely unknown.* The skulls of these 
1 a as 01 young males iiro.sent a remarkable apiiearance in the 
greatly cleyateil crests of the maxillary bone.s, but they are wide 
iCe 'I*” *iill. 
-le are. however, some skull, kiioivii (for iustince, one in our 
tlmi the him er part of the skull, and so Ihickencil, as almost to 
Wiieh each other in front, and to present a remarkably llatteiied 
anterior surf, me. Writing of one of these skulls, Dr 1 V. Gnv 
nS: 
th m the Liitish Museum there is a head of this genii.s in whieh 
tie elevated crests of the maxillary bones are tliiokeneil, so that 
leii iiiiior surfaces nearly touch in front of the blower;’’ addin-, 
sinspect It may be a dilfcrent sp.ecios. ” This skull Hr Gray 
and fet.oi under the name of IMfrcu ; and later 
P<^ofessor Flower, read before the 
Zoologic.al Society of London, “ On the Whales of the n , * . 
published in the « Tran.cti.n,s • of 
perfectly rpiadrangular, jint like ‘a ‘ K.dfpJf’ ' the hea<J as 
angles, an.l altogether more like th^t !f ' VkZTT’"'''' 
Ifl/Pfroodon : the anterior part of the foreheatl he4 pe^eSicuhr 4d 'the 
io.stnini .scarcely projectino- bevond ii- Ti,« i> i ^'cuiai, and the 
as conipareil ivitli the heal’’ ' ’’feu’ler 
