. The seals and whales of the British seas. upper jaw. In general appearance, Rissos Dolphin,more particularly the dark-coloured specimens, is said very much to resemblethe next species {Globiccplialus vielas). Of its habits and distribution nothingpositive is known, but from its visiting France and England in the spring orsummer, M. Fischer concludes that this species is migratory, visiting theshores of Europe in the summer, and passing in winter either to the southtowards the coast of Africa, or to the west towards the American Continent.! * Trans. Zool. Soc, vol. viii, p. 3. + /. c. p. 13.
. The seals and whales of the British seas. upper jaw. In general appearance, Rissos Dolphin,more particularly the dark-coloured specimens, is said very much to resemblethe next species {Globiccplialus vielas). Of its habits and distribution nothingpositive is known, but from its visiting France and England in the spring orsummer, M. Fischer concludes that this species is migratory, visiting theshores of Europe in the summer, and passing in winter either to the southtowards the coast of Africa, or to the west towards the American Continent.! * Trans. Zool. Soc, vol. viii, p. 3. + /. c. p. 13. J /. c, p. 18. ii8 SEALS AND WHALES OF TLLE BRLTLSH SEAS. THE riLOT WHALE. The Pilot Whale {Ghbiccphahis melas,TraW; DelpJninis melas, Trail;D. globiccps, Cuv.; D. dcditctor, Scoresby), known in Slietland as the Caingor Driving Wliale, is a frequent, although a very uncertain, visitor in Britishwaters. It -is met with, according to Lilljeborg, in the North Sea andnorthern part of the Atlantic Ocean, occasionally as far north as Greenland ;. rig. 26. (Tlror \\hale Globiiiplialiis mclas. Trail off the Orkney and Shetland Islands, and on the North-west coast of Norway,it frequently makes its appearance; and it has been found on the Britishcoast as far south as Cornwall. In Bells British Quadrupeds it is said thatit also appears to enter the Mediterranean. This species is pre-eminentlygregarious, and generally occurs in large herds, often numbering severalhundreds. So strong is their habit of association that they follow the SEALS AND WHALES OF THE BRLTLSH SEAS. 119 leading Whale like a flock of sheep, a habit of which the Orkney andShetland Islanders are fully aware, and avail themselves to the full. Whena herd appears in one of the bays, boats immediately put off, and if possible,get to seaward of them, then gradually approaching, with shouts and splashes,they urge the whole herd shoreward, and are generally successful in drivinga large number of Whales into shallow water; but sh
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