TURSIOPS ABUSALAM. 



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Table of iiuasurcmcut-'i. 

 TUKSIOPS CATALANIA. 



* Montigny, 1851. 



t About 2™"' should be. added for broalcajco. of tip of hoak. 



TUESIOPS ABUSALAM (Riippell). 



Delphinns alusalavi, Riippell, Museum Senckcnljcrgianuin, iii, 1845, p. 140, pi. xii, 

 figs. 1-G. 



This species closely resembles T. catalania, and may be identical with 

 it. Kiippell has appended no measurements of the skull to his admira- 

 ble description, but from bis figure it would appear that the beak, though 

 rivaling that of T. catalania in lengtb, has the same proportional breadth 

 as in T. tursio. The teeth are slightly more numerous than is usual in 

 the latter species, and in this again we are reminded of T. cataJania. 



In color T. ahusalam agrees with neither of tbc species with which I 

 have compared it, the upper parts being dark sea-green. T. tursio, as 



