296 DELPHINIDiE. 



cave on the sides, not quite half the entire length of the skull ; lower 

 jaw with two truncated teeth on each side in front. 



Phocsena giisea, Lesson, Man. 413 ; Wat/Ier, N. S. Amph. 34. 



Grampus griseus, Gray, Spic. Zool. 2, 1828. 



? Grampus, Hunter, Phil. Trans. 1787, t. 17. 



PDelphmus ventricosus, Lacep. Cet. 311. t. 15. f. 3; Schreb. Sauffeth. 



t. 341, both copied from Hunter, t. 17. 

 ? Phocsena ventricosa. Lesson, Man. 415, from Huntei: 

 Delphinus globiceps, var., Nilsson, Skand. Fauna, 608. 

 Grampus Cuvieri, Gray, Ann. N. H. 1846; Cat. Osteol. B. 3L 36; 



Zool. Erebus ^- Terror, 31 ; Cat. Cetac. B. M. 83, 1850 ; Proc. Zool. 



Soc. 1864. 

 ' Delphinus griseus, Cuv. B. A. i. 290 ; Ann. Mm. xix. t. 1. f. 1 (not 

 - > ' < . -, good), cop. Schreb. t. 345. i. 1 ; Oss. Foss. v. 284, 306, t. 22. f. 1, 2 ; 



' F. Curier, Cetac. 182. t. 12. f. 2 ; Besm. Mamm. 518 ; Fischer, Syn. 



Mamm. 512; Gervais, Zool. et Paleont. Frang. 149. t. 37. f 5 (from 



Brest) ; Sckleyel, Abhandl. 33. 

 Marsouin, Duhamel, Pech. iv. t. 9. f. 5. 



Inhab. North Sea. Coast of France : Brest, Eochelle (lyOrhigny), 

 1822. Isle of Wight, Hampshire {Bev. C. Bury), 1845. 



-^d U — a. Skull. Isle of Wight. Presented by the Eev. C. Bury, 



The measurements of D'Orbiguy's (first) old and (second) young 

 specimens : — 



' "^* '.'". Length, entire 10 (7 feet.) 



Length to blowers 2 6 



Length to pectoral fin 3 6 



Length of pectorals 3 



Length of dorsal 5 0? 



Width of tail 



Height of dorsal 1 2 



Skull : Length, entire 17 6 



Length of nose 8 



Length of teeth-series, lower jaw . . 2 3 



Length of lower jaw 12 



Width at notch 7 



Width at orbit 11 



Width at middle of nose 3 10 



Width of intermaxillary- 3 3 



Height at occiput 9 



The cervical are earliest anchylosed, as in the Belphinus Belphis. 

 Dorsal vertebrae 12. Ribs 12.12; six of the ribs are articulated 

 between the bodies of the vertebrae. Lumbar and caudal vertebrae 42. 

 The spinous processes are suddenly enlarged at the commencement 

 of the loins ; the articular apophysis of the ninth dorsal ceases to 

 enclose the preceding vertebra. The first finger of 2 joints, the 

 second of 8 joints, the third of 7 joints, the fourth of 2 joints, and 

 the fifth of 1 joint. The first bone of the sternum is not perforated, 

 but the last is rather notched. The bladebone has the outline of 

 D. Tursio and the apophyses of D. BeliMs. — Cuv. Oss. Foss. v. 306. 



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