DELPIIINUS LONGIROSTKIS. 



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states that the skull which he extracted tioiu the type-skin of i>, capensis 

 lias a longer beak than any other Delphimis in the collection, but he 

 does not specify whether absolute or relative length is intended and 

 does not give the number of teetli. 



The skull No. «3065, which I believe to be ths type of D. longirostris, 

 is certainly different from that of I), delphis. The skull is 49.5""' long, 

 the beak being 67.9 per cent, of this length, a proportion not reached 

 by any skulls of D. (?ci^7>/it6^ whicli I have examined. It is also much 

 narrower across the orbits, and the teeth, as already stated, are more 

 numerous, viz, ^§. The temporal fossa? are large and rounded, the 

 l)terygoids very narrow and sharply keeled. The palatine grooves arc 

 very deep, the intermaxilhB are very high near the notch, and are 

 rounded. The specimen does not appear to be old. I did not find 

 any other which I thought specifically identical with it. 



Table of measurements. 

 DELPIIINUS LOXGIROSTEIS. 



DELPHINUS CAPENSIS Gray. 

 Delpkinus capeitsts, Gray, Spicilegia Zoologica, i, 1828, p. 2. 



For remarks upon this species, see p. 58. 



