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SHARP LIPPED WHALE. B. Boops Jenyns, p. 47. 
Bell’s Quad., p. 520. Dr. Moore (London’s Mag. Nat. 
Hist, vol. 1, N.S.) informs us that it was this Species which 
in 1831 was found floating in the neighbourhood of Ply- 
mouth. The individual had frequented the Cornish Coast 
for a long time previously, in pursuit of young herrings, 
multitudes of which it was seen to devour ; and from gorg- 
ing which, it was supposed to have met its death. 
BRA KED WHALE. B. Jiostvafa , Bin. Some doubts 
exist, whether this be a distinct Species or the young of 
the B. Boops, Jenyns, p. 48. 
ROUNDHEADED' BLOWER. Physectcr Catodon , Lin. 
This also is considered a doubtful Species ; but it is pro- 
bable that future discoveries will extend rather than limit 
the Catalogue of British Whales. 
BLUNTHEADED BLOWER. P. STacrocephahis. Jcnvns, 
p. 44. Bell’s Quad., p. 506. 
HlGrllFINNKD BLOWER. P. Tarsio. Jenyns, p. 44. 
This is judged to be the Species sometimes seen on our 
Coasts, sailing rapidly along at a uniform elevation in the 
Water, with its slender but elevated fin above the surface, 
while the body is concealed below. 
BOTTLE NOSE. Ph. Bidens, Lin. Hyper'odden Bidens. 
Jenyns, p. 44. Bell's Quad., p. 492. 
HUMPED BLOWER. Ph. Polycyphus. . I have 
unfortunately omitted to note the proper reference to any 
authority for the use of the trivial name here given, and 
which I had an opportunity of verifying in a Volume be- 
longing to the Library of the Zoological Society of Lon- 
don. One Specimen ran itself on shore in pursuit of small 
fish, several years since ; and another was seen, and mi- 
nutely described to me by an intelligent fisherman ; but it 
would appear that the number of humps on the back is 
variable. It is probably the Baltena Monstrosa, Ruysh’s 
Theat. Anim., vol. 1., tab. 41. 
ORAMPUS. Delphinns Orca. Jenyns, p. 42. Loudon’s 
Mag. Nat. Ilist., vol. 4, p. 338, where the dorsal fin is re- 
presented as higher than in Bell’s Quad., p. 477. It is 
u a wieldly but ferocious, and seems to be the <j>a\a iva 
(Balaena) of the Poetic Naturalist Oppian, who gives a 
curious account of its being taken with a baited hook. 
PORPOISE. D. Phocania. Jenyns, p. 41. Bell’s Quad., 
p. 473. The Sniffer of Cornish fishermen. It is some- 
times caught in Drift Nets, and I have known it take a bait, 
though it commonly proves too strong for the line. The 
rolling motion of this and some other of the smaller Spe- 
cies, is caused by the situation of the Nostrils on the an- 
terior part of the top of the head ; to breathe through 
