The seals and whales of the British seas

Although at no period entirely neglected, as is apparent from the frequent reference to the subject by old authors, and from the known richness in species of the British Fauna,...

I will spare the reader, as much as possible, a repetition of the horrors of this cruel trade, and make only a single quotation from a letter written by an old and experienced s...

The HOODED OR BLADDER-NOSED SEAL, _Cystophora cristata_ (Erxleben), fig. 5, has occurred at least thrice upon our shores. In June, 1847, a young one was killed in the Orwell, an...

Nor is this lack of information surprising when we consider that the difficulties in the way of studying the larger Cetacea, are so great as to be almost insuperable to any ordi...

The usual length of a full-grown Right-whale is about 50 feet; but Dr. Brown, in his paper on the Cetaceans of the Greenland Seas (_P. Z. S._, 1868, p. 539), gives the dimension...

The habitat of the Common Rorqual is the temperate Northern seas, from the Mediterranean, which it sometimes enters, to the 70° north latitude, and sometimes even farther north...

Of the osteology of the Sperm Whale, Professor Flower has given an exhaustive description in a paper published in the ‘Transactions’ of the Zoological Society, vol. vi., and of...

The common BEAKED WHALE, or BOTTLE-HEAD (_Hyperoodon rostratum_, Chemnitz; _Hyperoodon butzkopf_, Lacépède), is of frequent occurrence in the North Atlantic, and generally visit...

This species (fig. 26) is remarkable for its peculiarly rounded head,--hence its generic name; the flippers are long and pointed, the dorsal fin long and low; the teeth are abou...

[24] Dr. Brown, in the paper before quoted, states that they couple from June to August, and bring forth in March or April. See also a note on ‘The Time and Manner of the Procre...