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DELPHIMID^. 



8. Delphinus Forsteri. Forsters Doljilim. 

 Greenish brown or rust- coloured, beneath Avhite ; a small white 

 spot on the disk of the dorsal and pectoral hu. Teeth -iA=:176, 

 acute, erect, conical, incur\-ed. Skull — — ? 



Delphinus Delphis, Forster, Descript. Aniin. 280; Icon. ined. Brit. 



Mu^. t. 31. 

 Delphinus Forsteri, Grai/, Zool. Ereh. l^- Terror, 42. t. 24 (from Forster) ; 



Cat. Cetac. £. M. 1850, 124. 



Inhab. Pacific Ocean, between New Caledonia and Norfolk Island 

 (^Forster, 1774). 



" Body straight, round, thickest behind ; the pectoral fin tapering 

 at both ends ; head rounded, shelving in front, beaked ; beak straight, 

 pointed, cyliudrical, depressed, attenuated and blunt at the tip ; upper 

 jaw shorter, both blunt, toothed ; eyes small, lateral, oblong, nearly 

 in the middle of the side, near the gape of the mouth ; a small hole 

 (the ears) above and behind the eyes ; blower single, between the 

 eyes in crown, lunate ; a linear abdominal slit a little behind and 

 beneath the dorsal fin, the fi'ont part the vulva, the hinder the vent ; 

 teats 2, one on each side the vulva, with a nipple the size of a pea ; 

 tail compressed on the sides, keeled above and below, and attenuated 

 towards the tip ; pectoral fin lanceolate, scarcely as long as the beak ; 

 dorsal fin in the middle of the back, nearly three-sided, falcate 

 behind, as long as the beak ; tail horizontal, two-lobed, each lobe 

 oblong, lateral, subfalcate. 



" Gregarious, swimming very rapidly around the ships and boats. 



" Length 6 feet from nose to tail." — Forster. 



This species resembles, in the distribution of its colouring, the 

 Dmiphin a hande fauve (Voy. Pole Sud), but the band on the side is 

 whitish, not fulvous. 



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9. Delphinus Sao. The Sao. 



Skull : beak elongate, shelving on the sides, with central cartilage 

 near half its length in front ; triangle to the teeth-line ; teeth 

 |-3_5^, small, cylindrical, hooked ; palate flat in front, with a broad 

 groove extending nearly half its length behind ; intermaxillaries and 

 palatine distinct, former broad in front; lower jaw slender, shelving, 

 and flat-sided in front. Length 17 inches, teeth-hne 8| inches, beak 

 10| inches, width at notch 3-j^. 



Delphinus Sao, Grai/, Cat. Cetac. B. M. 1850, 125. 



Inhab. Madagascar (Dussumier, 1838). SkuU, Mus. Paris. 



10. Delphinus Frithii. 



Delphinus Frithii, Blyth, Rep. Asiatic Soc, Calcutta, 12 ; Journ. 

 A. S. B. xxviii. 192 ; Cat. Mm. Asiatic Soc. Bengal, 91. 



Inhab. "Procured during a voyage from England to India" 

 {R. W. G. Frith, Esq., Jonrn. Asiatic Soc. xvi. 386). 



Skull in the Museum of the Asiatic Society of Calcutta, presented 

 by Mr. Frith, and probably an undescribed species, with a general 



