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M. Schlegel {Faun. Japan. 25), described a Dolphin 

 found on the coast of Japan, and called Saka mata kuzira. 

 It is said to have a high dorsal, and to be black with 

 white spots on the belly, back and sides, near the ))cctoral 

 fin. The eyelids and lips pale purple, the latter often 

 white spotted ; the head is rounded, the upper jaw point- 

 ed and toothless ; the lower short and narrow and toothed. 



Schlegel, who refers this species to D. orca, says the 

 wanting teeth in the upper jaw is a mistake, but I should 

 say that it is probably a Grampus, which often wants them 

 in that jaw. I do not see why one part of the description 

 should be relied on and not the other. 



Globiocephalus, Lesson. Physeter, Risso. Globioce- 

 phala. Lesson, 1842. 



Head round, forehead very prominent. Teeth conical, 

 large only on the front half of the jaws ; deciduous in the 

 old one. Upper jaw largest ? Pectoral narrow, linear-ovate, 

 low down. Dorsal falcate, about the middle of the back. 

 Skull flattened and concave in front of the blower. Nose 

 broad, flattened, rugose above. Intermaxillary bones very 

 broad, covering the greater part of the upper surface of the 

 upper jaws; the hinder wing of the jaw-bone horizontal 

 and bent up on the edge over the orbits and slightly ex- 

 panded and reflexed just in front of the orbit notch. 



The sucking young have no visible teeth ; the adults 

 have teeth in each jaw, but the aged individuals have ge- 

 nerally lost them in both. — Flem. 



The Pilot Whale. Globiocephalus Svineval. 



Petit Cachalot, Daub. Acad. Sci. 1782, i. 1, cop. Bonat. 

 Cetol. t. 



Cachalot Svineval, Lacep. 



Narwal edente, Camper, Cetac. t. 33, 34. 



Ca'ing Whale, Neil, Orkney and Shetland, 1836, 221. 



Delphinus Melas, Trail, AicJiol. Jour. xxii. 21. 



D. deductor, "Trail," Scoreshy, Arct. Reg. i. 496, t. 13, 



/ 1- 



D. globiceps, Cuv. Ann. Mtis. xix. t. 1, /. 2, (cop. 



Schreh. t. 345,/ 2, 3). Oss. Foss. v. t. 21,/. 11. 



Delphinus grampus, Cat. Mus. Col. Surg. n. 1137. 



Black, streak from throat to vent (sometimes dilated in- 

 to a cross baud), white ; teeth ^\ to ^^, rarely f|, Fleming. 

 The upper surface of the maxillaries and intermaxillaries 

 rugose in front ; intermaxillaries form a triangular patch 

 in front of the palate. 



Female suckling, with the young, 4 ft. 6 in. long in De- 

 cember, TVa/son, and 7 ft. long in January. 



The Delphinus globiceps, Risso, Europ. Merid. iii. /. 1, 

 /. 1. F. Cuv. 223. Black, with a gray band on each side 

 from the throat to the vent ; head large, round, swollen ; 

 jaws equal; teeth ^, round, conical, curved. Inhab. 

 Nice, Risso. Is probably the same as D. Svineval, but 

 M. F. Cuvier regards it as distinct. 



The Delphinus intermedins, Harlan, Jour. Acad. Sci. 

 Phil ad. vi. 51, ^ 1. 



D. Harlani, Schim. 



Globiocephalus Melas, Dekay. 



Phoca3na globiceps, Sampson, Silliman, Amer. Jour. Sci. 

 23-301, ». 



Inhab. coast of North America. 



May be distinct from the European species, but the spe- 

 cimens have not been examined with sufl!icieut care. 



Smaller Pilot Whale. Globiocephalus affinis. 



Delphinus Grampus, Cat. Mus. Col. Surg. n. 1138. 

 Hunterian Col. n. 686. 



Delphinus Melas, Owen, British Fossil Matnmalia. 



Teeth \^, small, conical, curved, very acute ; nose ex- 

 actly half as long as the head, rather tapering, and rather 

 concave on the sides ; intermaxillary nearly as wide as the 

 jaw ; lower jaw obliquely truncated in front. 



Inhab. — ? Mus. Col. Surg. 



Skull, length entire 

 „ ofnose 

 ,, teeth line 

 „ lower jaw .... 

 Width ofnose at notch 



„ of middle of nose .... 

 „ at orbits 



This is probably a young specimen of Globiocephalus 

 Svineval. The skull differs in being rather slenderer in 

 front and in the intermaxillary not being rugose in front. 

 In the Catalogue of the Mus. Col. Surg., 165, it is called 

 "the skull of a small Grampus," Hunterian, and n. 1136 

 the skull of a large Grampus, Hunterian. This appears to 

 be the skull which Mr. Owen gives the measurement of, 

 under the name of D. Melas, in his account of Phocmna 

 crassidens, in the work on British Fossil Mammalia. 



The Naiso-GOTA. Globiocephalus Sieboldii. 



Didelphis globiceps, Temm. Fauna Japan, t. 27. 



M. Siebold brought with him a figure of a very young 

 specimen, 5 ft. 6 inches long, of this species, made by M. 

 Villeneuve, which is copied in the ' Fauna Japonica,' and 

 a complete skeleton. 



Mr. Temminck regards it as undoubtedly the same as 

 the European, but yet allows that there are some diffe- 

 rences between it and the adult specimen observed on the 



