238 DELPHINID^. 



10. Steno ? coronatus. 



Black ; forehead with two concentric yellow circles. Beak very 

 long. Teeth |-i. Dorsal fin very minute. 



Delphinus coronatus, Freminville, Nov. Bull. Soc. Phil. iii. 56, 78. t. 1. 



f. 2, fl, B ; Desm. Mamm. 512 ; Graxf, Cat. Cctac. B. M. 132. 

 Delphinorh3Tichus coronatus, Lesson, Man. 405 ; Fischer, Syn. Mamm. 



505. 



Inhab. Spitzbergen ! 



" Beak slender, the upper jaw longest. Black, with two yellow 

 concentric circles on the convexity of the forehead. The upper jaw 

 with 15 teeth on each side, the lower with 24, all very acute. The 

 dorsal fin half-crescent-shaped, nearer the tail than the head. The 

 caudal crescent-shaped. The pectoral of a moderate size. Length 

 36 feet. The skull not known. 



"Inhab. Spitzbergen, 1806, near lat. 74°. Found in numerous 

 troops {Freminville). It is singular that no other authors have 

 spoken of it." — Cuvier, Oss. Fos.s. v. 278. 



'*b. Beak scarcely separated from the forehead.'' 



11. Steno? rostratus. The Beaked Dolphin. 



"Forehead gradually shelving to the beak" {Cuv.). The skull 

 with the nose as long as the brain-cavity. Teeth |-|-~ff > rather 

 largo. Black, lower lip and body beneath rosy white, not separated 

 by distinct lines, lower part of the sides black-spotted. 



Delphinus rostratus, Cuv. Ann. Mus. xix. 9 ; R. A. i. 289 ; F. Cuv. 



Ma7nm. Lith. t. ; Cetac. 156. t. 10. f. 2 ; Schleyel, Dieren van 



Nederlaml, 85. t. 11 (not Share). 

 Dauphin de Breda, Cuv. Oss. Foss. 278, 296. v. 400. t. 21. f. 7, 8. 

 Delphinus Bredauensis, " Cuv," ; Fischer, Syn. 505, from Cuvier, Oss. 



Foss. 

 Delphinus oxyrhynchus, Jardine, Nat. Lib. t. 27, cop, from F. Cuv. 

 Delphinus planiceps, Breda, Verh. Nederl. Hist. 1829, 236. t. 1, 2 ; 



Schkgel, Abhandl. t. 4. f. 8 (teeth). 

 Steno ? rostratus, Gray, Zool. Erebus Sf Terror, 43 ; Cat. Cetac. B. M. 



1850, 131 ; Proc. Zool. Soc. 1864, 236. 



Inhab. North Sea. Holland (Breda). Brest {UOrhigny). 



" M. Blainville, who observed a skull of this species in the museum 

 of Mr. J. Sowerby, says it had 22 teeth in each jaw, and the sym- 

 lihysis two-thirds the entire length " (Desm. Diet. H. N. ix. 16U). 

 If this is not a mistake for one-third, it will at once separate it from 

 the other Stenos, and connect it with Pontojioria, but the figure of 

 the skull in Cuvier and Schlegel resembles that of the genus Steno. 



The skuUs named D. rostratus in the Paris Museum arc very like 

 the Museum specimens of Steno fr onto tus. The nose is compnessed 

 in front. Teeth |-|— |y. Length, entire, 21|- inches; nose 12J-; 

 symphysis of lower jaw 5^ ; width at preorbital notch 4 inches. 



I have not been able to find the skull of this animal, Avhich was 

 in Mr. Sowerby 's Museum in Mead Place, Lambeth. 



