CETACEA. 123 
_ general resemblance and are deficient in opportunities of compa- 
ring individuals, we must be content to regard them as identical. 
The contents of the stomach were fish, cuttle-fish, or shrimps. 
The food contained in the first compartment of the stomach had 
_ seldom undergone any change, in the second its digestion had 
advanced, while in the third and fourth cavities it was reduced to 
_ a well-assimilated pulp.— Bennett, Whaling Voyage, 238. 
17. DELPHINUS JANIRA. The JANIRA. 
Skull roundish; nose depressed, half as long again as the 
head; triangle rather in front of the tooth-line; intermaxillaries 
_ yery convex behind, with a wide groove between, above in front ; 
_ palate with very wide, deep grooves on each side, extending 3 of 
_ the length, centre ridge flattened in the middle, the intermaxil- 
 laries forming a long triangle in front; teeth 43. 
 Delphinapterus Peronii, Mus. Bristol Institution. 
_ Delphinus Janira, Gray, Zool. EH. & T. 41. t. 23, skull. 
- Inhab. Newfoundland. Skull, presented to the Bristol Institu- 
tion by G. Thorne, Esq. ; 
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Skull: Length, entire .......... Ee 
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Sie f MDWEL ABN «455.08.» 5 3 le BY © 
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be (Ub, oe ae ead ee Petia 
middle of beak .. 2 5 
This skull differs from the D. Delphis of the Atlantic in the 
_ beak being much shorter and narrower. 
18. DeLpHiInus Nova ZEALANDI&Z. The New ZEALAND 
: DoLPHIN. 
_ Teeth 43; body elongated, rounded in front ; nose -eylindrical, 
rather flattened above; black-brown, edge of the upper jaw and 
_ beneath dull white, a yellow band from the eye along the side to 
below the dorsal ; tail slate colour ; pectoral and dorsal dull white, 
_ the latter dark-edged. 
_ Delphinus Nove Zealandiz, Quoy et Gaim.Voy. Astrol. 49.t. 28; 
Gray, Zool. E. & T. 41. 
_Tnhab. New Zealand and Cape Gable. 
Ti 
Length, entire ........ 5 10 
as to blowers .... 1 1 
3 taleyerrn FAY Te | 
ve to dorsal...... Bio OE 
- to'pectoral!:: 2.51. ..6 
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