258 DELPniNID.'K. 



6. Tursio truncatus. Bottlenose Dolphin. 

 Black, whitish beneath. Teeth |i, truncated when old ; skull- 

 nose five-ninths of the entire length; intermaxillaries very convex, 

 forming a strong rib on each side above ; intermaxilla and vomer 

 forming part of the palate, 



Delphinus Tursio, O. Fair. Fauna Grcenl. 49 ; Wriqht, Mag. N. H. ii. 



609, 1838; Bonnat. Cetac. 21. t. 11. f. 1 ; Schreh. Sauf/eth. t. 344 : 



Desm. Mamm. 514 ; Fischer, Si/n. 508 ; Gray, Zool. Erehus ^' Terror, 



37. 1. 10 (animal) ; Cat. Cetac. B. M. 1850, 109 ; P. Z. S. 1804 ; W. B. 



Clark, Ann. ^' Macj. N. H. ; Van Beneden, Nottv. Mem. Acad. Boi/. 



Brux. xxxii. 32 ; Schlef/el, dc Bieren, 8(). 1. 12 (var. obtusus, t. 13) ; 



Ileminci, Brit. Anim. 35 ; Jenyns, Man. 41 ; Bell^ Brit. Quad. 469. 



fig., 472. fig. ; Nilsson, Skand. Fauna, 602. 

 Tursio truncatus, Bottle-nose Wliale, Gray, List 3Iam. B. M, 104. 

 Tursiops Tursio, Gervais, Com^jtes Bcndus, 1864, 876. 

 Delpliinus Orca, Gerard, Diet. Sci. Nat. 75. 



Delphinus Nesarnak,Zrtce/>. Cet. 307 ; Desm.Manmi. 515, from O. Fab. 

 Delphinus truncatus, Mmitagu, Wern. Trans, iii. t. 5. f. 3 (skull), 



cop. Bell, Brit. Quad. 472, fig. 

 Bottle-nose, Hunter, Phil. Trans. Ixxx^di. t. 18, cop. Bomuit. Cetol. 



t. 11. f. 1, and Bell, Brit. Quad. 469, 1787, fig. 

 L'Orque (Orca), Bellon, Aquat. f. 6. tab. at p. 18. 

 Dauphin vulgaire. Camper, Cetac. t. 35-40 (skull). 

 Grand Dauphin, ou Souffieur, Cuvier, R. A. i. 278. 

 Anat. Cuvier, Oss. Foss. v. 277. t. 21. f. 3, 4, t. 23. f. 18, 22, 23, 29; 



Camper, Cetac. t. 35-40 ; Mont. Wern. Trans, iii. t. 5. 

 Var. ? Uniform deep black. Delphinus Tursio, Schlegel, Abhandl. t. 5. 



f. 1, 2, t. 4. f. 9. 



Black : a blotch over the pectoral and over the vent. 



Var. ? Delphinus Tursio, Sundevall, CEfv. Kongl. Vetensk. Akad. 1861, 

 385, t. 7. 



Inhab. Mediterranean and North Sea. Coast of south of Ireland, 

 Nov. 1828 {R. Templeton). Mouth of the Thames, Nore, June 

 1828 (Howship) ; skull, Mus. CoU. Surg. no. 1125. OrweU, May 10, 

 1849. Devonshire, River Dart {Montagu) ; skull Brit. Mus. Firth 

 of Forth ; skeleton, Mus. University, Edinburgh ; skeleton in Sur- 

 geons' Hall, Edinburgh, teeth acute. Holland ; skeleton, Leyden. 

 North coast of France ; skeleton at Paris. Belgium ; skeleton, 

 Ghent. Denmark ; skeleton, Mus. Copenhagen. 



a. Skull and teeth. 



h. Skull : bad state. From Dr. Mantell's Collection. 



In the ' Zoology of the Erebus and Terror,' tab. 10, is a copy of 

 a most accurate drawing, by Mr. E.. Templeton, of a specimen caught 



on the south coast of Ireland, in November 1828. The following 



are its measurements : — ft in lin 



Length, entire 8 1 3 



Length from snout to the eyes 1 



Length to the oar 1 2 5 



Length to the base of the pectoral . . 1 6 9 



Length to the end of the pectoral .... 2 G 7 



