6S DOLPHIN. Class IV. 



ed, not much unlike the beak of fome birds, for 

 which reafon the French call it L 9 oye de mer. 

 Teeth. It has in all forty-two teeth, twenty-one in the 



upper jaw, and nineteen in the lower, a little a- 

 bove * an inch long, conic at their upper end, 

 fliarp pointed*, bending a little in. They are 

 placed at fmall diftances from each other, fo that 

 when the mouth is fhut, the teeth of both jaws lock 

 into one another : a fingle one is figured plate iii. 



No. 5- 



The fpout hole is placed in the middle of 

 the head. 



The back fin is high, triangular, and placed 

 rather nearer to the tail than to the head ; the pecto- 

 ral fins fituated low. 



The tail is femilunar. 



The fkin is frnooth, the color -of the back and 

 fides dufky -, the belly whitifh. 



It fwims with great fwiftnefs : its prey is fifh. 



It was formerly reckoned a great delicacy : 

 Doctor Caius fays, that one which was taken in his 

 time, was thought a prefent v/orthy the Duke of 

 Norfolk, who diftributed part of it among his 

 friends. It was roafted and dreffed with porpefle 

 fauce, made of crumbs of fine white bread, mixed 

 with vinegar and fugar. 



This fpecies of dolphin muft not be confound- 

 ed with that to which feamen give the name, the 



* Plate Iii. fig. 5. 



latter 



