410 Ti&es. 



No lovelier colours paint the vernal dawn, 

 When orient dews impearl the enamell'd lawn j 

 Than from his sides in bright suffusion flow, 

 That now with gold empyreal seem to glow ; 

 Now in pellucid sapphires meet the view, 

 And emulate the soft celestial hue ; 

 Now beam a flaming crimson to the eye, 

 And now assume the purple's deeper dye : 

 But here description clouds each shining ray ; 

 What terms of art can Nature's power display ? " 



Unfortunately for poetry, the beautiful colours of the 

 dying Dolphin exist entirely in the fancy of the poet ; 

 as the Dolphin in a dying state displays no tints but 

 black and white, and it is believed that the notion so 

 prevalent among the ancients of the change of colour in 

 this animal was derived from a true fish, the Dorado, 

 which does exhibit this pheiiorneno- 



THE WHITE WHALE. (Beluga leucas.) 



THE WHITE WHALE, or Beluga, is included among the 

 dolphins. The body is white, tinged with yellow, or 



