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DELPHINID^. 



8. Delphinns Forsteri. Forsters Dolphin. 



Greenish brown or rust-coloured, beneath white ; a small white 

 spot on the disk of the dorsal and pectoral fin. Teeth ^f =176, 

 acute, erect, conical, incurved. Skull ? 



Delphinus Delphis, Forster, Descript. Anitn. 280; Icon. ined. JBrit. 



Mm. t. 31. 

 Delphinus Forsteri, Gray,Zool. Ereb. (^ Terror, 42. t. 24 (from Forster) ; 



Cat. Cetac. B. M. 1850, 124. 



Inhab. Pacific Ocean, between New Caledonia and Norfolk Island 

 {Forster, 1774). 



*' Body straight, round, thickest behind ; the pectoral fin tapering 

 at both ends ; head rounded, shehdng in front, beaked ; beak straight, 

 pointed, cylindrical, depressed, attenuated and blunt at the tip ; upper 

 jaw shorter, both blunt, toothed ; eyes small, lateral, oblong, nearly 

 in the middle of the side, near the gape of the mouth ; a small hole 

 (the ears) above and behind the eyes ; blower single, between the 

 eyes in crown, lunate ; a linear abdominal sHt a Uttle behind and 

 beneath the dorsal fin, the front part the vulva, the hinder the vent ; 

 teats 2, one on each side the viilva, with a nipple the size of a pea ; 

 tail compressed on the sides, keeled above and below, and attenuated 

 towards the tip ; pectoral fin lanceolate, scarcely as long as the beak ; 

 dorsal fin in the middle of the back, nearly three-sided, falcate 

 behind, as long as the beak; tail horizontal, two-lobed, each lobe 

 oblong, lateral, subfalcate. 



" Gregarious, swimming very rapidly around the ships and boats. 



" Length 6 feet from nose to tail." — Forster. 



This species resembles, in the distribution of its colouring, the 

 Dauphin a bande fauve (Voy. Pole Sud), but the band on the side is 

 whitish, not fulvous. 



9. Delphinus Sao. The Sao. 



Skull : beak elongate, shelving on the sides, with central cartilage 

 near half its length in front ; triangle to the teeth-line ; teeth 

 I ^ -| | -, small, cylindrical, hooked ; palate flat in front, with a broad 

 groove extending nearly half its length behind ; intermaxillaries and 

 palatine distinct, former broad in front ; lower jaw slender, shelving, 

 and flat-sided in front. Length 17 inches, teeth-hne 8| inches, beak 

 10| inches, width at notch 3^. 



Delphinus Sao, Gray, Cat. Cetac. B. M. 1850, 125. 



Inhab. Madagascar (Dussumier, 1838). SkuU, Mus. Paris. 



10. Delphinus Frithii. 



Delphinus Frithii, Blyth, Rep. Asiatic Soc. Calnitta, 12; Jmim. 

 A. S. B. xxviii. 192'; Cat. Mns. Asiatic Soc. Bengal, 91. 



Inhab. " Procured during a voyage from England to India '' 

 {B. W. G. Frith, Esq., Journ. Asiatic Soc. xvi. 386). 



Skull in the Museum of the Asiatic Society of Calcutta, presented 

 by Mr. Frith, and probably an undescribed species, with a general 



