126 CETACEA. me: 
The figure in the Fawna Japonica is from a drawing by a Jae q 
panese artist, made under Mr. Burger’s direction. 
Skull named D. longirostris, m the Paris Museum (n. 4), fried 5% 
Malabar, brought by M. Dussumier, 1827, has the palate with a — 
deep groove on each side of a central ridge in the hinder half, - 
slightly keeled behind near blower ; beak very long, very taper- — 
ing ; nasal very convex, rounded; teeth 3 $, small, shghtly curved ; 
triangle exactly to the teeth- line. 
in. lin 
Skull: length......... uae 
dais OE CRIB these Sie nate 2 tee 
width at motely. ... > s0/b 6. eS 
> of middle of beak .. 1 7 
*** Skull round; triangle not reaching to the teeth-line ; 
palate convex, with a very concave line on the hinder — 
_ part of each side; beak twice as long as head. Teeth 22. 
22. DELPHINUS MICROPS. The SMALL-HEADED DOLPHIN. 
Skull small, subglobular ; palate convex ; nose very long, slen- — 
der, twice as long as the length of the brain-cavity, nearly four ~ 
times as long as broad at the notch; intermaxillaries convex above, 
with a broad cavity between them in front, rather contracted im ~ 
front of the blowers; teeth 48; maxillaries very spongy; the 
triangle in front of the blowers short, not nearly reaching to the — 
line of the hinder tooth ; palate with a prominent ridge extending ~ 
along its hinder two-thirds. 
Delphinus microps, Gray, Zool. E. & T. 42. t. 25, skull. . 
Inhab. Coast of Brazils, Dr. Dickie. 
a. Skull 2? From the Haslar Hospital. | 
The specimen figured in the Voyage of the Erebus and Ter-— 
ror, tab. 25. p. 42. 
Dimensions of five skulls in inches and lines: the Ist is in the 
Norwich Museum, the 2nd in the British Museum, 3rd, Museum ~ 
of the College of Surgeons, the 4th, Dr. Dickie’s Collection, 5th, © 
in the Edinburgh College, n. 164. 
1. 2. a 4, 5. 
ine in. In. nm. 1n, 
Length, entire ......... 17°6. 156, 150 , ISO aie 
ee OT MOE coin'aio'asbie mr risa 96 110 
» Of teeth-lme... ... i 8:0 8°6 
» Of lower-jaw... 149 13:0 12°6 
Width at notch ......... ae 27 2°6 4:0 3 
sy. Tab) Ma Sank. Fae ts Lars 6:0 
» of middle of beak 2: 3 Pag | Ls 2:3 
; of intermaxillaries 8:0 9:0 ski 2:0 
