124 CETACEA. 
ft. in. 
Width of caudal ...... 1 4 
Gn OP DECUONNLs sas a ay 
Height of dorsal ...... 0 2 
Circumference ........ F tales ty 
_ The following is probably the same :— | 
Dauphin a band fauve, Voy. Pole Sud, t. 21. f. 1. ¢) 23) 
not described. 
Skull in figure rather suddenly contracted behind; nose 74 of 
the entire length of skull, and 23 times the breadth at the notch ; 
intermaxillaries convex; teeth-43. Skull so named in Mus. — 
Paris, has a deep groove on each side the palate, and the triangle 
to the teeth-line. 
-Inhab. Van Diemen’s Land. 
a. Skull from Antarctic Expedition. Length 14 inches; of — 
nose, 8; lower jaw, 12; width in middle of beak 1 inch 9 lines. Is 
very like figure of skull of D. Janira. 
6. Skeleton. Antarctic Seas. Antarctic Expedition. Pre- 
sented by the Admiralty. 
19. DeLpHiINus ForsterRI. Forster’s DoLpHIn. | 
Greenish brown or rust-coloured, beneath white ; a small white 
spot on the disk of the dorsal and pectoral fin; teeth 44=176, 
acute, erect, conical, meurved. Skull 4 
Delphinus Delphis, Forster, Descrip. Anim. 280; Icon. ined. 
Brit. Mus. t. 31. 
D. Forsteri, Gray, Zool. Ereb. & Terror, 42. t. 24, for Forster. 
Inhab. Pacific Ocean, between New Caledonia and Norfolk Island, 
Forster, 1774. 
“Body straight, round, thickest behmd; the pectoral fin ta- 
pering at both ends; head rounded, shelving in front, beaked; — 
beak straight, pomted, cylindrical, depressed, attenuated and — 
blunt at the tip; upper jaw shorter, both blunt, toothed; eyes — 
small, lateral, oblong, nearly in the middle of the side, near the 
gape of the mouth, a small hole (the ears) above and behind the — 
eyes ; blower single, between the eyes in crown, lunate; a linear — 
abdominal slit a little behind and beneath the dorsal fin, the front 
part the vulva, the hinder the vent; teats 2, one on each side the — 
vulva, with a nipple the size of a pea; tail compressed on the — 
sides, keeled above and below, and attenuated towards the tip; 
pectoral fin lanceolate, scarcely as long ascae beak ; dorsal fin in 
the middle of the back, nearly 3-sided, faleate behind, as long as 
the beak ; tail horizontal, 2-lobed, each lobe oblong, lateral, sub- — 
falcate, 
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