CETACEA. 89 
_ Weight estimated at 255 lb. Length, from nose to end of tail, 
86 inches; to pectoral fin 20, to dorsal 38, to blow-hole 93, to 
_ eye 92, to penis 49, to anus 56 inches ; ; span of tail 2]; pectoral 
- fin 52 across the base, 21 inches along the anterior edge, and 
£6 inches along the posterior; circumference in front of dorsal 
fin 46 ; blow-hole concave anteriorly and 13 inch across from tip 
to tip; eyes 3 of an inch. Vertebre 58; “podies of six of the 
- cervical co-ossified; 11 dorsal, and posterior to them were 40.— 
_ Jackson, I. c. 
_ It has been thought that the European and American specimens 
_ were the same, but the anatomical descriptions show the followmg 
- differences :— 
1, American.—Vertebre 58: cervical 7 (body of 6 first co-ossified) ; 
dorsal 11; posterior 40.—Jackson, 1. c. 166. 
2. European.—Vertebre 55: cervical 7 (body and second and 
__ third co-ossified) ; dorsal 11 ; posterior 37.—Cuv. Oss. Foss.v. 
In the Paris Museum there is a skull of this genus from Gua- 
daloupe, named D. globiceps. The middle of the intermaxillaries 
are as wide as the maxilla. Skull: length, entire, 234 inches ; 
of nose, 112; width at notch 83, at middle of beak 8-9 inches. 
. GLOBIOCEPHALUS AFFINIS. SMALLER PILoT WHALE. 
Teeth 12, small, conical, curved, very acute; nose exactly half 
as long as the head, rather tapering, and rather concave on the 
sides; intermaxillary nearly as wide as the jaw; lower jaw _ 
obliquely truncated in front. 
Delphinus Grampus, Cat. Mus. Col. Surg. n. 1138; Hunterian 
© Col. n. 686. 
Delphinus Melas, Owen, British Fossil Mammalia. 
‘Globiocephalus affinis, Gray, Zool. Ereb. & int 32. 
Inhab. ——? Mus. Col. Surg. 
Skull: length, entire.......... 24 
peop ae gf < SE aa a aha 12 
> ., teeth-line ...... Zz 
or WOWCE Jas tes 19 
width of nose at notch.. 9 
» of middle of nose. 6 
vi ae Orpite ©, 2 LSS 1 ey, 
ARSOOCOWOB 
__ This is probably a young specimen of Globiocephalus Svineval. 
The skull differs in being rather slenderer in front, and in the in- 
_termaxillary not being rugose in front. In the Catalogue of the 
X Mus. Col. Surg. 165, n. 1138, it is called “the skull of a small 
