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3.? DELPHINUS COMPRESSICAUDA. TheCoMpREssED-TAiLED 

 DOLPHIN. 



Teeth f f, small, conical, hooked ; head coloured ; belly whitish; 

 pectoral short ; upper jaw longest ; nose short ; base of the tail 

 compressed on each side. 



Phocsena compressicauda, Lesson, Cetac. 199; F. Cuv. Cetac. 



186 (from Garnot MSS.). 

 Inhab. 4 S. lat., 26 E. long, of Paris. 



ft. in. 



Animal : length to pectoral 1 8 



expanse of tail 1 7 



ft Beak short. Nose of skull thick, conical, convex above, 

 half as long as the head. Tursio. 



Tursio, Gray, Zool. E. fy T. 37. 

 Cetus, sp. Brisson. 



* Beak of skull rather thick, and rather swollen on the sides. 

 Teeth f-t. 



4. DELPHINUS TURSIO. BOTTLE-NOSE DOLPHIN. 



Black, whitish beneath ; teeth f|, truncated when old ; skull- 

 nose f of entire length ; intermaxillaries very convex, forming a 

 strong rib 011 each side above ; intermaxilla and vomer forming 

 part of the palate. 



Delphinus Tursio, 0. Fab. Faun. Gran. 49 ; Wright, Mag. N. H. 



ii. 609, 1838 ; Bonnat. Cetol. 21. t. il. f. 1 ; Schreb. Saugth. 



t. 344; Desm. Mam. 514; Fischer, Syn. 508; Zool. E. ty T. 



37. 1. 10, animal. 

 Tursio truncatus, Bottle-nose Whale, Gray, List Mam. B. M. 



104. 



D. Orca, Gerard, Diet. Sci. Nat. 75. 



D. Nesarnak, Lacep. Cet. 307 ; Desm. Mam. 515, from 0. Fab. 

 Delphinus truncatus, Montague, Wern. Trans, iii. t. 5. f. 3, skull, 



cop. Bell, B. Quad. 472, fig. 

 Bottle-nose, Hunter, Phil. Trans. Ixxxvii. t. 18, cop. Bonnat. 



Cetol. t. 11. f. 1, and Bell, B. Quad. 469, 1787, fig. 

 L'Oudre (Orca), Bellon, Aquat. f. 6. tab. at p. 18. 

 Dauphin vulgaire, Camper, Cetac. t. 35-40, skull. 

 Grand Dauphin, ou Souifleur, Cuvier, R. A. i. 278. 

 ANAT. Cuvier, Oss. Foss. v. 277- t. 21. f. 3, 4. t. 23. f. 23, 29. 



f. 22. f. 18; Camper, Cetac. t. 35-40; Mont. Wern. Trans, iii. 



t. 5. 



Var.? D. Tursio, Schlegel, Abh. t. 5. f. 1, 2. t. 4. f. 9. 

 Jnhab. North Sea. 



