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Habitat.—Cosmopolitan ? Tasmania (lower). 
Dimensions.—Total length generally from six to eight feet, 
sometimes as much as ten feet. 
References.—Gray, B.M. Catal. Seals and Whales, p. 242; Scott, 
Seals and Whales, p. 72. 
2. DELPHINUS NOVEH-ZEALANDIA, Quoy & Gaim. (1832 - 4). 
New Zealand Dolphin. 
Teeth ¢7:{2. Body rounded in front, tapering behind, becoming 
much compressed and carinated above from about half-way 
between the end of the dorsal and the caudal fins ; snout narrow, 
cylindrical, depressed above, pointed in front. Upper part of 
body glossy rich black to half-way between dorsal and tail, beyond 
which the entire body is dark slate color; edge of upper jaw, 
lower jaw, and belly dull whitish; pectorals blackish’ above, 
whitish below ; dorsal dull whitish or leaden-gray in the middle, 
the margins darker; eye margined with black, from which a 
narrow black white-edged band extends forwards to join the black 
of the head ; a large dull ochraceous patch, tapering behind, from 
the eye to beneath the hinder margin of the dorsal. Palate deeply 
concave along each side behind. (McCoy.) 
Dimensions.—Total length up to at least seven feet. 
Habitat.—Southern coasts of Australia; Tasmania; New 
Zealand. 
feferences.—Gray, B.M. Catal. Seals and Whales, p. 246; Quoy 
& Gaim. Voy. Astrolabe, Mamm. pl. xxviii. fig. 1; McCoy, Prodr. 
Zool. Vict. dec. iii. pl. xxii. 
3. DELPHINUS FULVIFASCIATUS, Hombr. & Jacq. (1842 et seq.). 
Dusky-banded Dolphin. 
Teeth $7:4;.  Blackish.,; sides of back fulvous; throat and 
beneath white ; beak, orbit, streak from angle of mouth to pectoral 
fin blackish. Palate deeply channeled on each side behind. 
Habitat.—Tasmania. 
Keferences.—Gray, B.M. Catal. Seals and Whales, p. 253, and 
Suppl. p. 68; Hombr. & Jacq. Voy. Dumont d’Urville, pls. xxi. 
fig. 1 and xxiii. figs. 1, 2. 
4, DELPHINUS FORSTERI, Gray (1845). 
Forster’s Dolphin. 
Teeth #$:44%. Body round, thickest behind ; pectoral tapering 
at both ends; head rounded, shelving in front, beaked; beak 
straight, pointed, cylindrical, depressed, attenuated and blunt at 
the tip. Above dark rust color, beneath dirty white. 
