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13. Tursio compressicaudus. The Compressed-tailed Dolphin. 



Teeth A^, small, conical, hooked ; head coloured ; belly whitish ; 

 pectoral short ; upper jaw longest; nose short; base of the tail com- 

 pressed on each side. 



Phocfena compressicauda, Lesson, Cetac. 199 ; F. Cuv. Cetac. 186 (from 



Gnrnot, MS.). 

 Delphiuus compressicauda, Gray, Cat. Cetac. B. M. 1850, 109. 



Inhab. lat. 4° S., long. 26° E. of Paris. ^^ j^^ 



Animal : Length to pectoral 1 8 



Expanse of tail 1 7 



The following species of this family require further examination : — 



1. D. velox, Dussinn. ; Cuv. R. A. i. 288 ; F. Cuv. Mamm. Lith. t. ; Cetac. 



154 ; Fucheran, Rev. >§• Mag. Zool. 1856, 362. 



Teeth ^; nose rather more elongated. — Cuvier. Teeth |^| ; grey, 

 lips and lower jaw whitish. — F. Cuv. 

 Inhab. Ceylon. 

 Skull : Mus. Paris (PitcTieran). 



2. Delphinus Boryi, Desm. Mamm. 515 ; Desmotdin, Diet. Class. H, N. 



1. 141. f. 2 ; Gray, Cat. Cetac. B. M. 1850, 132. 



Inhab. Madagascar. (Coast of New Holland ?) 



3. Delphiuus longer, Sclireh. Siiugeth. t.362?; Wiee/mann; FeicJih.Naturg, 



Cetac. 12, 41. 1. 16. f. 51 ; Gray, Cat. Cetac. B. M. 1850, 120. 



Lead-coloured ; middle of sides, chest, and belly white ; rather 

 flexuous line from orbit to the lumbar region lead-coloiu-ed. 

 Inhab. ? 



4. Delphiuus Pernettyi, Desm. 3Iamm. 543; Gr-aij, Cat. Cetac. B. M. 



1850, 132. 

 D. Pemettensis, Blainv. ; Desm. N. D. H. N. vs.. 154. 

 D. Delpbis, var. a, Bonnat. Cetol. 21. 

 Delphinorliynchus Peruettyi, Lessoti, Man. 406, from Dauphiu, 



Fernett. Vvy. 99. t. 2. f. 1. 



_ Inhab. ? 



5. D. C^inensis, Desm., from Osbeck, Voy. ; Gray, Cat. Cetac. B. M. 



1850, 132. / 



Shining white. ' , ^n c ^wa 



Inhab. Chinese seas. /i/H^ '"^WjJkAlX^ T^aAkA^ t/*- J^ry 



6. Delphiuus hamatus, Ehrenh.; Reiehh. Cetac. No. 1, Anat. t. 21; Grai/, 



Cat. Cetac. B. M. 1850, 131. 



Beak once and a half the length of the skull, twice and a half the 

 width at the notch ; teeth |4-. 



7. Delphiuus Chaniissonis, Wieqm. ; Scltreb. Sujyp. t. 359 ; Reiehh. Cetac. 



126. 66. t. 22. f. 64, 65 ; Gray, Cat. Cetac. B. M. 1850, 131. 

 Delphiuus albirostratus, J. Feale, U. 8. Expl. Exped. 34 (t. 6. f. 2. 

 ined.) ; Gray, Cat. Cetac. B. M. 1850, 133. 



Elongate, dorsal fin nearer the head, dark blue-grey; fius and 



