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European shores. The forehead is less swollen, and the 

 pectoral fins are rather larger than in CI. Siiiieml of Eu- 

 rope. This species is called Naiso goto. 



The Japanese distinguish two other species r 1. Sibo 

 golo, which is purple, with a white spot behind the dorsal 

 fin, and the lower jaw furnished with many plaits. 2. 

 Ohanan golo, black, with a larger muzzle and more spa- 

 cious mouth ; the dorsal -]- from head, back edge before the 

 middle ; pectoral i from head ; pectoral \ length ; length 

 of skull 15-0 ; beak 69 ; widlh at notch 4-9. 



The Del]5hinus globiccps {(7yrt«/, iVoc. Zool. Soc. 18.33, 

 65), brought by Capt. Delvitte from the North Pacific, which 

 Schlegel thought might be this species, is an Orca. 



The Large-headed Pilot Whale. Globiocephalus 

 macrorhynchus. 



Killer or Blackfish, J. Beiuiet, MSS. Mits. Col. Surg. 



Nose of skull short and broad, rounded in front, nearly 

 as broad in the middle as at the preorbital notch. Teeth 

 subcylindrical, -|. Lower jaw rounded in front. 



Inhab. South Seas. Mus. Col. Surg. Presented by J. 

 Bennett, Esq. 



Skull, length entire 24 



„ nose .... .... .... 11 6 



„ from top of nose to back 



of palate .... .... 14 6 



„ teeth line .... .... 5 6 



„ lower jaw .... .... 16 6 



Breadth at preorbital notch .... 9 6 



„ at middle of nose .... 9 



„ at temple .... .... 17 



„ of intermaxillary .... 6 



Delphinus feres, Bonnat. Cetac. 27. 



Blackish ; teeth \%, large and small, curved, compressed 

 before and behind ; crown oval, rounded and divided in 

 two lobes by a groove, which extends their whole length. 



Inhab. Mediterranean, Malta. 



Length, 14 feet. Skull, length 1 foot 10, breadth 1 ft. 

 •5 inches ; length of teeth, 1 in., breadth of line ^ inch. 

 Cuvier thinks this is probably 0)-ca gladiator. 



Orca. Rondel. 



Teeth conical, acute, large, occupying the whole edge 

 nearly to the notch, permanent ; forehead flattened. Dor- 

 sal fin high, falcate, in the middle of the back. Pectoral 

 broad, ovate. Skull rounded ; the hinder wing of the 

 maxilla horizontally spread over the orbits, the interraaxil- 

 laries only half the width of the jaw-bones. Palate convex. 



The Killer. Orca gladiator. 



Delphinus orca, Linn. S. N. 108. 



Grampus, Hunter, Pliil. Trans. 1787, t. 16, cop. 

 Bell. Brit. Anim. Bonnat. Cetac. t. 12,/. 1. 



Cachalot D'Anderson, Du/iamel. 



D. Duhamelii, Lacep. Pise. t. 9, f. 1. good. 



D. Orca, Mag. Nat. Hist. iv. -329, jig. 2. Schlegel. 

 Ahh. ii. t. 7, 8. from life. Cut. Oss. Foss. v. /. 22,/. 3, 4, 

 R. A. i. 289. 



? Delphinus gladiator, Lacep. Cetac. .302, /. 5, /. 3. 



D. Gram])us, JJesui. 



Black ; circumscribed spot behind ej'e, spot on belly, 

 and under side of tail white. Nose of skull twice as long 

 as the width of the notch. Teeth 44j I'H'ge, conical, slight- 

 ly hooked. 



B. M. 



Skull, length entire .... 33'0 



„ ofnose .... 16"6 

 „ of teeth line 14'6 



„ of lower jaw 27'3 



Breadth at notch .... 10-6 



„ at orbit .... IS'O 



„ at temple .... ISO 

 ,, at middle of beak 96 

 „ of intermaxillary 

 „ in front .... 40 



„ in middle .... 3"6 



M.C. S. No. 11.3(5. 

 41-6 

 22-6 

 200 

 350 

 140 



GO 

 .3-6 



The skull, n. 1136, of the Museum of the College of 

 Surgeons, is of most colossal size. It formed part of the 

 Hunterian collection. It may probably be the skull of 

 the large specimen, 31 feet long, killed at Greenwich, in 

 1793. — Banks in Lacepede. It is called the Large 

 Grampus, D. Grampus in the catalogue, the Globiocepha- 

 lus affinis being called the " Smaller Grampus" (n. 1138), 

 and the Cape Killer, n. 1139; the Globe-headed Dolphin, 

 JJ. glohiceps, Cuvier. 



There is a skull in Mr. Bell's museum, from a male 19 feet 

 long, taken in Lynn harbour, Nov. 1830. The animal 

 was described in Loudon s Mag. Nat. Hist. v. The fol- 

 lowing are the measurements of this specimen : — 



Length along curve .... .... 2r3 



„ straight .... .... .... 19'0 



„ to dorsal fin .... .... 8'2 



„ to pectoral fin .... .... 4'0 



Height of dorsal .... .... 4"0 



„ to dorsal .... .... 13'1 



Length of dorsal .... .... 2'4 



„ of pectoral .... .... 4"0 



Breadth of pectoral .... .... 2'8 



We have a beautiful skeleton of this species, 20 feet 

 long, taken on the Hampshire coast, presented by R. 

 Pearce, Esq., and a large skull from the coast of England. 



Delphinus orca, Linn. S. Nat. 108, is evidently from 

 Orca, Belon, Pise. 18, Bond. Pise. 483, Jig. copied by 

 Gesner, Aqiiat. 748. In the Mantissa, i. 523, the refe- 

 rence to the Schwerdt Jisehe of Anderson and some other 

 whalers is added, and probably from them there is added 

 " Bellum gcrit cum Phocis, quas ope gladii dorsalis c lapi- 

 dibus detrudit ; Balasnarum Phocarumque tyrannus, qua 

 turmatim adgreditur. Pinna dorsalis est spina ensiformis, 

 sex pedalis, cute vestita, basi latior. — Mant. ii. 523. O. 

 Fabricius never saw this animal. Bonnaterre gave the name 

 oi Del ])hi mis gladiator to Anderson's figure, which repre- 

 sents the dorsal fin as near the nape. 



Cuvier believed that the Orca of the ancients was pro- 

 bably a Cachalot, and that the Killer is the Aries 

 marinus of Pliny, Julian and the Latins, who compared 

 the white streak behind the eye to a horn. Desmarest, 



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