killadar

[Hind.] The governor of a fort. ( Indian .) IMG:content-0238.png:[blocks in formation] Zool.: Orca gladiator , one of the Delphin ide (Dolphins). It is from eighteen to thirty feet long, glo y black above, and white below, with a white patch above the eye, and sometimes a grayish saddle mark on the back. The mouth has eleven or twelve powerful, conical, slightly recurved teeth in each jaw. Its fiercene and voracity constitute it the terror of the ocean. Eschricht took thirteen porpoises from the stomach of one, and found that it had choked itself in swallowing a fourteenth. Not merely seals and walruses, but even huge sperm Green land whales dread its attacks. They hunt in small packs, and are particularly abundant near some of the Pacific sealing grounds; they also try to devour the whales struck by harpoons. ( Dr. Murie, in Ca ell's Nat. Hist.)