2(JG DELPHINID-E. 



13. Tursio compressicaudus. The Compressed-tailed Dolphin. 



Teeth If, small, conical, hooked ; head coloured ; belly whitish ; 

 pectoral short ; upper jaw longest ; nose short ; base of the tail com- 

 pressed on each side. 



Phocsena compressicauda, Lesson, Cetac. 199 ; F, Cuv. Cetac. 18G (from 



Garnot, MIS.). 

 Delphinus compressicauda, Gray, Cat. Cetac. B. M, 1850, 109. 



Inhab. lat. 4° S., long. 26° E. of Paris. ^^ .^^^ 



Animal : Length to pectoral 1 8 



Exjianse of tail 1 7 



The foUowing species of this family require further examination : — 



1. D. velox, Ihcssum. ; Cuv. E. A. i. 288 ; F. Cuv. Mamm. Lith. t. ; Cetac. 



154 ; Puckeran, Rev. i^- Mag. Zuul. 1856, 362. 



Teeth |-L ; nose rather more elongated. — Cuvier. Teeth f | ; grej^ 

 lips and lower jaw whitish. — F. Cuv. 

 Inhab. Ceylon. 

 Skull : Mus. Paris (Pucheran). 



2. Delphinus Boryi, Desm. Mamm. 515 ; Desmoulin, Diet. Class. H. N. 



1. 141. f. 25 Gray, Cat. Cetac. B. M. 1850, 132. 



Inhab. Madagascar. (Coast of New Holland ?) 



3. Delphinus loriger, Schreh. Siiugeth. t.362?; Wieymami', Reichh.Naturg. 



Cetac. 12, 41. t. 16. f. 51 ; Gray, Cat. Cetac. B. M. 1850, 120. 



Lead-coloured ; middle of sides, chest, and belly white ; rather 

 flexuous line from orbit to the lumbar region lead-coloured. 

 Inhab. — ? 



4. Delphinus Pemettyi, Desm. Mamm, 543; Gray, Cat. Cetac. B. M. 



1850, 132. 

 D. Pernettensis, Blainv. ; Desm. N. D. II. N. ix. 154. 

 D. Delpliis, var. a, Bonnat. Cetol. 21. 

 Delphinorhynchus Perncttji, Lesson, Man. 406, from Dauphin, 



Pernett. Voy. 99. t. 2. f. 1. 



Inhab. ? 



5. D. Chinensis, Desm., from OsbecJc, Voy. ; Gray, Cat. Cetac. B. M. 



1850, 132. 



Shining white. 

 Inhab. Chinese seas. 



0. Delphinus hamatus, Ehrenh.; Reichb. Cetac. No. \,Anat. t. 21; Graif, 

 Cat. Cetac. B. M. 1850, 131. 



Beak once and a half the length of the skull, twice and a half the 

 width at the notch ; teeth |A. 



7. Delphinus Chamissonis, Wiecpn. ; Schreb. Sujyp. i. 359 ; Reichb. Cetac. 

 126. m. t. 22. f. 64, 65 ; Grai/, Cat. Cetac. B. 31. 1850, 131. 

 Delpliimis albirostratus, /. Pc'ale, U. S. Expl. Exjied. 34 (t. 6. f, 2. 

 iued.) ; Gray, Cat. Cetac. B. M. 1850, 133. 



Elongate, dorsal fin nearer the head, dark blue-grey ; fins and 



