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Show 1868.] OF THE GREENLAND SEAS. 549 is short and of little value. Though one of the most common Whales on the Greenland coast, yet, on this account and being difficult to capture, it is rarely troubled. 6. CATODON MACROCEPHALUS, Lace'p. Physeter macrocephalus, Linn. Syst. N . i. p. 107 ; O. Fab. Fauna Grcenl. p. 41. Popular names.-Sperm-Whale (English) ; Kegutilik (Greenlanders). It is probably also the Potvisch (Norse), and Tweld-Hval (Icelandic). Though currently reported in all compilations as one of the most common animals of the Arctic seas, and especially of Davis Strait and Baffin's Bay, it can only be ranked as a very rare, and possibly accidental, straggler. Whatever it was formerly, it is now only known to Davis-Strait whalers by name; many will even ridicule the notion of its being an inhabitant of those seas. I found very few Eskimo who knew it even by tradition ; and I could only hear of one recent instance of its being killed on the coast of Greenland, viz. near Proven (72° N. lat.) in 1857. 7. DELPHINUS EUPHROSYNE, Gray. Delphinus holbbllii, Eschricht, Skand. Naturf. Mode i Kjobenhavn, 1847, p. 611. This species is only known as a member of the Greenland fauna by a skeleton from South Greenland. It is apparently unknown to the natives, for they have no popular names for it. 8. LAGENORHYNCHUS ALBIROSTRIS, Gray. Delphinus ibsenii, Eschricht, Unders. over Hvald. 5teAfh. i Vid. Selsk. Nat. Math. Afh. xii. 297. This is only known as a Cetacean of Davis Strait by a skeleton from Greenland in the Copenhagen Museum. It is found also in the Faroe Islands, and in various portions of the North Sea. 9. LAGENORHYNCHUS LEUCOPLEURUS (Rasch), Gray. Dr. Gray* has referred a skeleton from Greenland in Mr. Brandt's collection to this species, and on his authority solely I claim it as a member of the Greenland fauna. W e possess no particulars of its history as an Arctic animal. The Norwegians know it as the Qwitskjoeving. 10. ORCA GLADIATOR (Bonn.), Sund. Delphinus orca (L.); O. Fab. Fauna Grcenl. p. 46. Physeter microps, Fab. F. G. no. 27; Reinhardt, Naturh. Tillaeg til en Geog. og Stat. Breskrev. af Gronl. p. 12. Popular names.- Grampus, Killer, Swordfish (English seamen) ; * Zool. Erebus and Terror, p. 34, t. 3; Cat. Seals and Whales (1866), p. 273. PROC. ZOOL. Soc-1868, No. XXXVI. |