296 DELPniNiD,!:. 



cave on the sides, not quite half the entire length of the skull ; lower 

 jaw with two truncated teeth on each side in front. 



Phocfena giisea, Lesson, Man. 413 ; War/Ier, N. S. Amph. 34. 



Grampus griseus, Gray, Spic. Zuol. 2, 1828. 



? Grampus, Hunter, Phil. Trans. 1787, t. 17. 



PDelplimus ventricosus, Lacep. Cet. 311. t. 15. £ 3; Schreh. Simgeth. 



t. 341, both copied from Hunter, t. 17. 

 ? Phocsena ventricosa, Lesson, Man. 41.5, from Hunter. 

 Delpliinus globiceps, var., Nilsson, Skand. Fuuha, 608. 

 Grampus Cuvieri, Gratj, Ann. N. H. 1846 ; Cat. Osteol. B. 3L 36 ; 



Zool. Erehus 8f Terror, 31 ; Cat. Cetac. B. M. 83, 1850 ; Proc. Zool. 



Soc. 1864. 

 Delphinus griseus, Cuv. R. A. i. 290 ; A^in. Mtts. xix. t. 1. f 1 (not 



good), cop. Schreb. t. 345. f. 1 ; Oss. Foss. v. 284, 306, t. 22. f. 1, 2 ; 



F. Ctn-ier, Cetac. 182. t. 12. f. 2; jDesm. Mamm. 518; Fischer, 8yn. 



Mamm. 512 ; Gervais, Zool. et Paleont. Franq. 149. t, 37. i. 5 (from 



Brest) ; Schletjel, Abhandl. 33. 

 Marsouin, Duhaviel, Pech. iv. t. 9. f. 5. 



Inhab. North Sea. Coast of France : Brest, Eochelle (D'Orbigny), 

 1822. Isle of Wight, Hampshire {Rev. C. Bury), 1845. 



ff. Skull. Isle of Wight. Presented by the Rev. C. Bury. 



The measurements of D'Orbigny's (first) old and (second) young 

 specimens : — 



ft. in. 



Length, entire 10 (7 feet.) 



Length to blowers 2 6 



Length to pectoral fin 3 6 



Length of pectorals 3 



Length of dorsal 5 0? 



Width of tail 



Height of dorsal 1 2 



Skull : Length, entire 17 6 



Length of nose 8 



Length of teeth-series, lower jaw . . 2 3 



Length of lower jaw 12 



Width at notch 7 



Width at orbit 11 



Width at middle of nose 3 10 



Width of intermaxillar)' 3 3 



Height at occiput 9 



The cervical are earliest anchylosed, as in the Delphimis DelpMs. 

 Dorsal vertebrae 12. Ribs 12.12; six of the ribs are articulated 

 between the bodies of the vertebrae. Lumbar and caudal vertebra? 42. 

 The spinous processes are suddenly enlarged at the commencement 

 of the loins ; the articular apophysis of the ninth dorsal ceases to 

 enclose the preceding vertebra. The first finger of 2 joints, the 

 second of 8 joints, the third of 7 joints, the fourth of 2 joints, and 

 the fifth of 1 joint. The first bone of the sternum is not perforated, 

 but the last is rather notched. The bladebone has the outline of 

 D. Tursio and the apojihyscs of D. Deljyliis. — Cuv. Oss. Foss. v. 306. 



