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Show •554 MR. R. BROWN ON THE CETACEANS [Nov. 12, winter ; and the following occurrence seems to support this view. In April, 1860, a Greenlander was travelling along the ice in the vicinity of Christianshaab, and discovered one of these open spaces in the ice, which, even iu the most severe winters, remain open. In this hole hundreds of Narwhals and white Whales were protruding their heads to breathe, no other place presenting itself for miles; around. It was described to me as akin to an Arctic Black Hole of Calcutta, in the eagerness of the animals to keep at the place. Hundreds of Eskimo and Danes resorted thither with their dogs and sledges, and while one shot the animal, another harpooned it to prevent its being pushed aside by the anxious crowd of breathers. Dozens of both Narwhals and white Whales were killed, but many were lost before they were got home, the ice breaking up soon after. In the ensuing summer the natives found many washed up in the bays and inlets around. Fabricius describes a similar scene. Neither the Narwhal nor the White Whale are timid animals, but will approach close to, and gambol for hours in the immediate vicinity of, the ship. (c) Geographical distribution.-The range and migration of the Narwhal is much the same as that of the White Whale. It is only found oil the coast of Danish Greenland during the spring and winter, migrating northward and westward in the summer. It is rarely seen south of 65° N. lat. (e) Economic value.-In early times the tusk of the Narwhal was highly valued as a medicine; and Master Pomet, in his ' Compleat Historie of Drugges,' gives special directions regarding the selection of them. To this day the Chinese esteem them for their medicinal properties. In 1861 the price of Narwhals' ivory was ls. 6d. per lb., but of late years it has risen prodigiously in value, but is again falling. In the Palace of Rosenborg is a throne of the kings of Denmark manufactured of this ivory ; and Capt. Scoresby (the father of the Doctor) had a bed made of them. The oil is highly esteemed, and the flesh is very palatable. The skin of the Narwhal boiled to a jelly is looked upon, and justly so, as one of the prime dainties .of a Greenlander. The hospitable Danish ladies resident in that country always make a point of presenting a dish of mattak to their foreign visitors, who soon begin to like it. 14. GLOBIOCEPHALUS SVINEVAL (Lacep.), Gray. Delphinus melas, Traill, Nicholson's Journal, vol. xxii. (1809) p. 21'. Delphinus deductor, Traill, M S S . and Scoresby's Arctic Regions vol. i. p. 496, t. 13. fig. 1. Delphinus globiceps, Cuv. Ann. Mus. xix. t. 1. fig. 2. Delphinus tursio, O. Fabr. Faun. Grcenl. p. 49. no. 31. Popular names.-Bottle-nose, Caaing Whale (fishermen and seamen) ; Grindaquealur (Faroe Islands) ; Grinde-Hval (Swedish and Danish) ; Nesernak or Nisarnak (Greenland). The term Bottlenose is applied by sailors to several species of Whales. In fact any |