3. DELPHINUS. 247 



The following is probably the same : — 



Dauphin a bande fauve, Voy. Pole Sud, t. 21. f. 1, t. 23, f. 1, 2 (not 

 described). 



Skull (in the figure) rather suddenly contracted behind ; nose seven- 

 elevenths of the entire length of the skull, and twice and three-fourths 

 the breadth at the notch ; intermaxiUaries convex. Teeth Al. SkuU 

 so named in Mus. Paris has a deep groove on each side the palate, 

 and the triangle to the teeth-line. 



Inhab, Van Diemen's Land. 



7. DelpMnus albimanus. 



Snout, head, back, tail, and dorsal fin blue-black ; belly and pec- 

 toral fin white ; sides pale tawny ; eyes small, brown, and surrounded 

 with a black ring, which joins the black of the snout ; body between 

 the dorsal fin and tail very much compressed. Teeth ^". " ^^ . 



Delphinus albimanus, Peale, Zool. JExjjI. Uxpecl. Mamm. 33 (ed. 1, 1848) ; 

 Cassiii, U. S. Expl Exped. Mamm. 29. t. 6. f. 1. 



Inhab. Coast of Chili. 



" Total length 6 feet 6 inches, snout 5| inches ; dorsal fin, mea- 

 sured along the front edge, 9^ inches ; tail 6 inches long, 4 inches 

 wide ; from the end of the snout to the eye 12 inches ; body 6 inches ; 

 above the tail, when most compressed, 1^ inch wide ; circumference 

 in front of dorsal fin 40^ inches. Weight estimated to be 150 

 pounds. 



" The specimen was a female. Its uterus contained a single foetus, 

 which was a male, of a reddish flesh -colour, and about 9 inches long. 

 The stomach contained fragments of cephalopod moUusca only. It 

 was harpooned from the bows of the IJ. S. ship ' Peacock,' on the 

 coast of Chili, latitude 27° 16' S., and longitude 75° 30' W., on the 

 12th of June." 



" This species was captured by the Expedition on the coast of Chili. 

 Its locality therefore is widely different from that of the species of 

 which we have cited the name provisionally and inquiringly as a 

 synonym, and which, as its name implies, is from the coast of New 

 Zealand. "We are, however, inclined to suspect that they are identical, 

 on grounds which will be apparent on comparison of our plate with 

 that in the Zoological Atlas of the ' Voyage of the Astrolabe,' Mam- 

 miferes, pi. 28. figs. 1 & 2, or in Schreber's Siiugethiere, pi. 357. The 

 small circular openings on the throat of I). Novce Zelandicp, repre- 

 sented in the plate of the 'Voy. Astrolabe,' just cited, and par- 

 ticularly in fig. 2, and called " pores," by Messrs. Quoy and Gaimard, 

 we regard as very probably the work of a parasitic animal infesting 

 it. The fact that these orifices are placed with entire irregularity is, 

 in our opinion, fatal to the supposition that they are a character of 

 the animal. Their absence in the present species is probably a con- 

 sideration of no moment in the question of identity. The dentition 

 of the two species is stated by their describers as exactly the same." 



