“These Whales are occasionally met with immediately after leaving the Shetland Isles in March, and north across the ocean until the ice is reached, near the margin of which they are found in the greatest numbers; but they are seldom seen amongst it. Although it is not in their nature to keep in amongst the ice, they like to frequent the open bays for the shelter it gives them from the sea. Sometimes a point of ice overlaps them; it is then only that they are seen going out again towards the ocean. They are also to be met with from the entrance of Hudson’s Straits and up Davis’s Straits, as far as 70° N. lat., and down the east side round Cape Farewell, all round Iceland, north along the Greenland ice to 77° N. lat.; also along the west coast of Spitzbergen, and east to Cherry Island in lat. 72° N. and long. 19° E. Beyond these limits I have never seen them; but doubtless they are to be found as far as the Straits of Belle Isle on the west, and east to Nova Zembla. From the fact that they are not seen in summer farther south than a day’s sail from the ice, it would appear that they migrate south in the autumn, and north again in the spring. They are gregarious in their habits, going in herds of from four to ten. It is rare to see more than the latter number together, although many different herds are frequently in sight at the same time. The adult males very often go by themselves; but young bulls, cows, and calves, with an old male as a leader, are sometimes seen together. They are very unsuspicious, coming close alongside the ship, round about underneath the boats, until their curiosity is satisfied.... They vary in colour from black in the young to light brown in the older animals. The very old turn almost yellow, the beak and front of the head being quite white, with a white band round their necks; all of them are grayish-white on the belly. They can leap many feet out of the water, even having time while in the air to turn round their heads and look about them, taking the water head first, and not falling helplessly into it sideways like the larger whales. The full-grown whale is 30 feet long by 20 feet in circumference, and yields two tons of oil besides two hundredweight of spermaceti.... Their ordinary food consists of a bluish-white cuttle-fish, six inches long by three inches in circumference, and pointed towards the tail.... They evidently have a great depth to go to find them, judging from the length of time that they remain away, and from the long heavy blasts they make on coming to the surface again.” Periotic bones of _Hyperoödon_ are found in the Red Crag of Suffolk, presenting no character by which they can be specifically distinguished from those of the common existing species.