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Title: The seals and whales of the British seas
Year: 1881 (1880s)
Authors: Southwell, Thomas, 1831-1909
Subjects: Whales Seals (Animals) Cetacea
Publisher: London, Jarrold and Sons
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
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has, however, been suggested, with muchprobability, by Eschricht, that these individuals are, after all, only the malesof the preceding species; for all the specimens with broad crests, of whichthe sex was noted, were males. CUVIER S WHALE. Cuviers Whale (Ziplihis cavirostris, Cuv.; Epiodon desinarestii, J. E.Gray, Cat. Seals and Whales ), another of this remarkable group, has beenmet with once on the coast of Shetland, and it, or its remains, have beenfound about five or six times in other parts of Europe, and also, it is believed,at the Cape of Good Hope, the east coast of South America, and NewZealand. Professor Turner is of opinion that the geographical range ofZiphhis cavirostris equals that possessed by the Spermaceti Whale.; Incolour this species is believed to resemble Sowerbys Whale; it has twoteeth, one on each side of the lower jaw, close to the extremity. * Bells Brit. Quad. p. 426. f Collett, Norges Pattedyifauna, p. 99. \ Zoology of H. M. S. Challenger, part iv., p. 29.
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SEALS AND WHALES OF THE BRITISH SEAS. 105 Cuvier established the genus Ziphuis in 1825, from a fossil skull found onthe coast of Provence in 1804, which he believed at the time to belong to anextinct animal. SOWERBY S WHALE. One more British Ziphioid is known, SoWERBvs Whale (Mesoplodonsowerbiensis, De Blainville) ; it was first described from a specimen whichcame ashore at Brodie, Elginshire, in 1800, and has since been found threetimes in Ireland ; there is also a skull in the Museum of Science and Art atEdinburgh, which belonged to a specimen believed to have been capturedsomewhere on the Scotch coast; the remains of five others are preserved invarious Continental museums. Of the individual which came on shore on the coast of Kerry, in March,1864, Mr. Andrews has given a description in the Transactions of the RoyalIrish Academy, for April, 1867. Fortunately, it came under tlie notice ofDr. Busteed, of Castle Gregory, who being interested in zoolog)^ and awareof the great importance

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