CETACEA. 7<J 



doubt that DuhamePs animal was the Beluga which is common 

 in that country. In the St. Lawrence they rarely exceed 1 5 feet 

 long. 



2. BELUGA KINGII. The AUSTRALIAN BELUGA. 



Nose of the skull short, not half the entire length, scarcely 

 longer than its width at the notch ; teeth i, small, hooked. 



Delphinus (Delphinapterus) Kingii, Gray, Ann. Phil. 1827, 375 ; 



Fischer, Syn. 514. 

 Beluga Kingii, Gray, List Mamm. B. M. 104 ; Zool. Erebus fy 



Terror, 30. t. 7, skull. 

 Inhab. Coast of New Holland, Capt. P. P. King. 



a. Skull: length, entire, 13J, of beak 5; width at notch 4^, 

 at orbits 8 inches. New Holland. Presented by Capt. P. P. 

 King, R.N. 



Specimen described, Gray, Ann. Phil. 1827, and Zool. Erebus 

 and Terror, t. 7- 



This may be the Jacobite, or Tursio corpore argenteo extremi- 

 tatibus nigricantibus, Commerson MSS. Delphinus Commersonii, 

 Lacep. 317, from Cape Horn, cited by Cuv. R. A. i. 291, and 

 Oss. Foss. v. 289. 



Doubtful Genera. 

 ? 1. EPIODON. 



Dorsal fin none, Teeth of lower jaw rounded ; upper jaw 

 toothless. 



Epiodon, Rafinesque, Precis Someol. 13(1814); Anal. Nat.... no 



character. 



Hyperodon, sp. (pars), Lesson, Man. 420. 

 Delphinus, pars, Desm. Mam. 521 ; Fischer, Syn. 516. 



1. EPIODON URGANANTUS. 



Epiodon Urganantus, Rafinesque, Precis Someol. 13, 1814. 

 Delphinus Epiodon, Desm. Mamm. 521 ; Fischer, Syn. 516. 

 Heterodon Epiodon, Lesson, Man. 420. 

 Inhab. Sicily. 



2. OXYPTERUS. 

 " Dorsal fins two." 



Oxypterus, Rafinesque, Precis Someol. 13, 1814. 

 Delphinus Oxypteri, Dtesm. Mam. 516; Fischer, Syn. 509. 

 Oxypterus Mongitori, Rafinesque, Precis Someol. 13. 

 Delphinus Mongitori, Desm. Mam. 516; Fischer, Syn. 509. 

 Inhab. Sicily. 



