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nova-zelandice Quoy & Gaim., Voy. Astrolabe, Mamm., 1830, 

 p. 149- 



janira Gray, Erebus & Terror, Zool., 1846, p. 41, pi. 23. 



albrinanus Peale, U. S. Expl. Exped., Mamm., v, 1848, in, p. 33. 



algeriensis Loche, Rev. Mag. Zool., 1860, p. 474, pi. 22, fig. i. 



forsteri Gray, Cat. Get., 1866, p. 248. 



major, moorii & walkeri Gray, Cat. Get., 1866, pp. 396, 397. 



pomeegra Owen, Trans. Zool. Soc., vi, 1866, p. 23, pis. 6. 8. 



bairdi Dall, Proc. Calif. Acad. Nat. Scien., v, 1873, p. 12. 



microps Burm. (nee Gray), Desc. Phys. Argent., in, 1879, p. 534. 



fuscus, sowerbianus, variegatus, batteatus, moschatus (La Font), 

 Fisch., Act. Soc. Linn. Bord., v, 1881, p. 127, pis. 4, 5, 6. 



marginatus , La Font., (nee Pucher.), Act. Soc. Linn. Bord., VT, 

 p. 518. 



curvirostris Riggio, Nat. Sicil., 11, 1883, p. 157, pi. 3. 

 COMMON DOLPHIN. 



Type locality. Coast of Europe. 



Geogr. Distr. Atlantic Ocean; Gulf of Mexico. 



Genl. Char. Body slender; forehead forming an angle to the beak, 

 which is long and slender; dorsal fin in center of back, narrow; pec- 

 torals three times longer than broad, pointed. 



Color. Very variable; upper parts black and blackish gray; 

 beneath white or greenish white ; black, gray or greenish band from 

 lower jaw to base of pectorals; orbital ring black, from which a black 

 band extends forward to the base of the beak; margin of lower jaw 

 black; elongate areas of light festoons of gray on sides, traversed by 

 two longitudinal bands of gray or greenish gray. 



Measurements. Total length, 1382-2008; length of pectoral, 280- 

 305; width of flukes, 393-450; height of dorsal, 177-203; blow-hole to 

 end of nose, 330-356. 



25. Tursiops. Dolphins. 



^Ti to |= = 8 4 to I00> 

 Tursiops Gerv., Hist. Nat. Mamm., n, 1855, p. 323. Type Del- 



phinus tursio Fabricius. 

 Tursio Gray (nee Wagl.), List Spec. Mamm., Brit. Mus. 1843, pp. 



xxiii, 105, Id. Cat. Seals and Whales, 1866, p. 254. 

 Rostrum with moderate taper; no groove in palate; mandibular 

 symphysis short; teeth stout; vertebras, C. 7, D. 13, L. 17, C. 27 = 64. 

 Dorsal fin high, falcate. 



