72 CETACEA. 
Besides the beautiful figure engraved in Sowerby’s Brit 
Miscellany, there is a drawing of the head as sent by Mr. Brod 
made by Mr. Sowerby, and exhibited by him at one of Sir Joseph 
Banks’s Sunday-evening parties, now preserved in the Banksian ; 
collection in the British Museum. The skull was preserved in. 
Mr. Sowerby’s museum, in Mead’s Place, and when distribute 1 
at his death it was purchased by the Rev. Dr. Buckland, the Dean 
of Westminster, and sent to the anatomical museum in Oxford, 
from whence Dr. Acland kindly sent it to me for examination. 
While in Mr. Sowerby’s possession, M. De Blainville, when on 
a visit to England, made a slight sketch of the skull (engraved im 
Zool. Erebus and Terror, t. 5), and, under the name of D. Sower- 
biensis, gives the following description of it: ‘ Téte osseusse, la 
machoire supérieure est plus courte et infiniment plus étroite que” 
VPinferieure qui la regoit 5 en outre cette machoire inférieure est 
armée de chaque edté et au milieu de son bord d’un seul dent trés — 
fort comprimée et dirigée obliquement en arriére. L/orifice de le - 
vent est en croissant dont les comes sont tournées en avant.”— 
Blainv. Desm. Dict. H. N. ix. 177. ; 
The above description and Blainville’s sketch show that it be- 
longs to the genus Ziphius of Cuvier, before only known in the 
fossil state; and the examination of the skull has proved the 
accuracy of these determinations. q 
Before discovering the drawing of the skull, I was induced to ~ 
regard this species, from the lateral position of the teeth and 
small size of the fins, as the same as the Delphinorhynchus mi- 
cropterus of the coast of France and Belgium (see Ann. & Mag. 
N. H. 1846), believing the difference in the size of the teeth 
(which Mr. James Sowerby’s s description appears to indicate) to ~ 
be only a peculiarity produced probably by the age of the speci- — 
men, instead of bemg, as it has proved to be, a distinctive cha- 
racter of the genus. a 
** Jaws short. 
2. ZipuHius SECHELLENSIS. The SECHELLE ZIPHIUS. 
Ziphius de Sechelles (M. le Duc, 1839), Mus. Paris. if 
Ziphius Sechellensis, Gray, Zool. E. § T. 28. t. 6. f. 1, 2, lower 
jaw. 
(gaa Sechelles. a. Skull in Mus. Paris. 
The skull is very like that of Delphinus micropterus, but the 
nose-bones are thicker, heavier and higher. The teeth m the 
middle of the lower jaw, as in Z. Sowerbiensis, but larger a 
compressed. The hinder part of the lower jaw is very broad, the 
front half much narrower and bent down in an arched manner. qj 
Very like the fossil from D’Anvers. F 
