^^^^^ DELPHINID,T5. 



'J/p^ 6. Tursio truncatus. Botthnose Dolphin. 



/\, / Black, whitish beneath. Teeth |i, truncated when old ; skull- 



f"^ nose five-ninths of the entire length ; intermaxillaries very convex, 



' I /il' forming a strong rib on each side above ; intermaxiUa and vomer 



i/*'' / forming part of the palate. 



h ^ ^ f'^~' Delphinus Tursio, O. Fahr. Fauna Gra-nl. 49 ; Wn'f/Jd, 3Iar/. N. II. ii. 



.. , ^ . 609, 1838; Bonnat. Cetac. 21. t. 11. f. 1; Schrch. Sanr/kh. t. 344; 



JlinA-otli] / 1*^ 1^ <•" Desm. Mamm. 514 ; Fischer, Si/n. 508 ; Grai/, Zool. Erchus, 8f Terror, 



' 37. 1. 10 (animal) ; Cat. Cetac. B. 31. 1850, 109 ; P. Z. S. 1864 ; IF. B. 



Clark, Ann. 8f Mag. N. H. ; Van Beneden, Nouv. Mem. Acad. Roy. 



Brux. xxxii. 32 ; Schlegel, de Diei-en, 86. 1. 12 (var. obtusus, t. 13) ; 



Fleming, Brit. Anim. 35 ; Jenyns, Man. 41 ; Bell, Brit. Quad. 469. 



fig., 472. fig. ; Nilsson, Skand. Fauna, 602. 

 Tursio truncatus. Bottle-nose AN'liale, Oray, List Mam. B. 31. 104. 

 Tursiops Tm'sio, Gervais, Comptcs Bcndus, 1864, 876. 

 Delphinus Orca, Gerard, Diet. Sci. Nat. 75. 



Delphinus Nesaruak, Z«ce/;. Cet. 307; Desm.Mainm. 515, from O. Fah. 

 Delphinus truncatus, Montagu, Wern. Trans, iii. t. 5. f. 3 (skull), 



cop. Bell, Brit. Quad. 472, fig. 

 Bottle-nose, Hunter, Phil. Trans. Ixxxvii. t. 18, cop. Bomuit. Cetol. 



t. 11. f. 1, and Bell, Brit. Quad. 469, 1787, fig. 

 L'Orque (Orca), Bellon, Aqiiat. f. 6. tab. at p. 18. 

 Dauphin vulgaire, Camper, Cetac. t. 35-40 (skull). 

 Grand Dauphin, ou Souffiem-, Cuvier, B. A. i. 278. 

 Anat. Cuvier, Oss. Foss. v. 277. t. 21. f. 3, 4, t. 23. f. 18, 22, 2.3, 29 ; 



Cam2)er, Cetac. t. 35-40 ; Mont. Wern. Trans, iii. t. 5. 

 Var. ? Uniform deep black. Delphinus Tursio, Schlegel, Ahhandl. i. 5. 



f. 1, 2, t. 4. f. 9. 



Black : a blotch over the pectoral and over the vent. 



Var. ? Delphinus Tursio, Sundevall, (Efv. Kongl, Vetensk. Akad. 1861, 

 385, t, 7. 



Inhab. Mediterranean and North Sea. Coast of south of Ireland, 

 Nov. 1828 (R. Templeton). Mouth of the Thames, Nore, June 

 1828 (Howship) ; skull, Mus. CoU. Surg. no. 112.5. OrweU, May 10, 

 1849. Devonshire, Elver Dart (3Iontagti) ; skull Brit. Mus. Firth 

 of Forth ; skeleton, Mus. University, Edinburgh ; skeleton in Sur- 

 geons' Hall, Edinburgh, teeth acute. Holland ; skeleton, Lcyden, 

 North coast of France ; skeleton at Paris. Belgium ; skeleton, 

 Ghent. Denmark ; skeleton, Mus. Copenhagen. 



a. Skull and teeth. 



b. Skull : bad state. From Dr. Mantell's Collection. 



In the ' Zoology of the Erebus and Terror,' tab. 10, is a copy of 



a most accurate drawing, by Mr. R. Templeton, of a specimen caught 



on the south coast of Ireland, in November 1828. The following 



are its measurements : — „, . ,. 



it. m. Im. 



Length, entire 8 1 3 



Length from snout to the eyes 10 i 



Length to the ear 1 2 5 I 



Length to the base of the pectoral ..169 v 



Length to the end of the pectoral .... 2 6 7 .( 



In — ' /tir: 



