342- DELPHINIDJE. 



in. lin. 



Skull : Length 2 



Length of beak 13 9 



Width at notch 3 2 



Width of middle of beak 1 7 



* * Bvak moderate, once and a half the lemjth of the brain-cavity. 

 Teeth if-M- 



3. Delphinus Delphis. The Dolpliin. 



Black, sides grey, beneath white ; the dorsal moderate. Teeth || 

 (i|, Schlegel) . Nose of skuU half as long again as the length of the 

 brain-cavaty. 



Delphinus vulgaris, Lacep. Cet. 250. t. 14 (skull). 



Delphinus antiquorum, Ray, Wilhi(/hh. Pise. t. A 1. f. 1. 



Delphinus Delphis, Linn. S. N. i. 108 ; Himtei; Phil. Trans. 1787, .373, 



618; Bonmit. Cet. 20. t. 10. f. 2; Schreb. Stiuyeth. t. .343; Desm. 



Mamm. 514 ; F. Cm: Cet. 123 ; Mam. Lith. t. ; Jurdine's Whales, 



t. 23, cop. Pell's Brit. Qmd. 463. tig-. ; Sehlegel, Abhandl. i. 20. t. 4. 



f. 2 (teeth) ; Cuvier, Oss. Foss. v. 275, 303. t. 21. f. 9, 10 ; Grai/, 



Zool. Ereb. S, Terror, 40. t. 26 (tongue and fcetus) ; Cat. Cetac. B. M. 



1850, 120; P. Z. S. 1864, 237 ; Sehlegel, Dieren, 82. t. 10; Turton, 



B. Fauna, 17; Jeni/ns, 3Ian. 40; Fleming, B. A. 35; Bell, Brit. 



Quad. 463. tig. ; Nilsson, Skand. Fauna, 591 ; Malmgren, Arch. 



Natnrg. 1864, 88. 

 Delphinus, Pliny, H. N. ix. c. 7, 8 ; Bellon, Aquat. 7. fig. ; Rondel. 



Pise. 459. fig. ; Aldrov. Pise. 704. fig. ; Willughb. Pise. 28. t. A 1. 



f. 1 ; Klein, Ilisc. Pise. ii. 24. t. 3. f. a. 

 Dolphin, SJiaia, Zool. ii. 507. t. 229; Borlase, Conmali, 264. t, 27. f. 1. 

 Dauphin ordinaire, Cuv. R. A. i. 278. 

 An.\t. Cuvier, Oss. Foss. v. t. 21. f. 9, 10; Laeep. t. 14; Yolkmann, 



Anat. Anim. Tab. 1831, t. 9. f. 2, 3, 4 (skull) ; Sjjir, Cephalog. t. 8. 



f, 8 (skull) ; Rai)p, Cetac. t. 1 (skeleton). 



Inhab. North Sea. Atlantic Ocean, Mediterranean, 



a. h, c. Stuffed specimens. English coast. Presented by Messrs, J. 



and C. Grove. 

 ? a. Skull, large. 



b. Skull, smaller. Australia. Presented by A. Cunningham, Esq. 



c. Skull, St. Helena. Presented by A. Pearson, Esq. 



d. Skull. Presented by J. J. Bennett, Esq., F.R.S, 

 e-p. Twelve skulls. 



q. Skeleton, English coast. 



The most prominent difference between the specimens is in the 

 ■width of the upper jaw in front of the notch, just over the com- 

 mencement of the teeth-series ; but there does not occur any other 

 character in connexion with it. There is also a slight difference in 

 the form of the palate : in a, the central ridge is narrow and rounded 

 above behind ; in 6 it is broad, flat, sharp-edged, and very deeply 

 concave on the sides, under the edges, but the different specimens 

 vary in this particular. In d and g, the hinder part of the palate, 



