124 CETACEA. 



ft. in. 



Width of caudal 1 2J 



of pectoral 4 6 



Height of dorsal 8 



Circumference 2 11 



The following is probably the same : 

 Dauphin a band fauve, Voy. Pole Sud, t. 21. f. 1. t. 23. f. 1, 2, 



not described. 



Skull in figure rather suddenly contracted behind ; nose T 7 T of 

 the entire length of skull, and 2f times the breadth at the notch ; 

 intermaxillaries convex; teeth J|. Skull so named in Mus. 

 Paris, has a deep groove on each side the palate, and the triangle 

 to the teeth -line. 

 Inhab. Van Diemen's Land. 



a. Skull from Antarctic Expedition. Length 14 inches ; of 

 nose, 8 ; lower jaw, 12 ; width in middle of beak 1 inch 9 lines. Is 

 very like figure of skull of D. Janira. 



b. Skeleton. Antarctic Seas. Antarctic Expedition. Pre- 

 sented by the Admiralty. 



19. DELPHINUS FORSTERI. FORSTER'S DOLPHIN. 



Greenish brown or rust-coloured, beneath white ; a small white 

 spot on the disk of the dorsal and pectoral fin; teeth f f = 176, 



acute, erect, conical, incurved. Skull ? 



Delphinus Delphis, Forster, Descrip. Anim. 280; Icon. ined. 



Brit. Mus.t. 31. 



D. Forsteri, Gray, ZooL Ereb. fy Terror, 42. t. 24, for Forster. 

 Inhab. Pacific Ocean, between New Caledonia and Norfolk Island, 



Forster, 1774. 



" Body straight, round, thickest behind ; the pectoral fin ta- 

 pering at both ends ; head rounded, shelving in front, beaked ; 

 beak straight, pointed, cylindrical, depressed, attenuated and 

 blunt at the tip ; upper jaw shorter, both blunt, toothed ; eyes 

 small, lateral, oblong, nearly in the middle of the side, near the 

 gape of the mouth, a small hole (the ears) above and behind the 

 eyes ; blower single, between the eyes in crown, lunate ; a linear 

 abdominal slit a little behind and beneath the dorsal fin, the front 

 part the vulva, the hinder the vent ; teats 2, one on each side the 

 vulva, with a nipple the size of a pea ; tail compressed on the 

 sides, keeled above and below, and attenuated towards the tip ; 

 pectoral fin lanceolate, scarcely as long a s the beak ; dorsal fin in 

 the middle of the back, nearly 3-sided, falcate behind, as long as 

 the beak ; tail horizontal, 2-lobed, each lobe oblong, lateral, sub- 

 falcate. 



