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CETACEAN GALLERY. 



Gallery. There are also casts of the heads of a pair of this and 

 of Tursiops tursio, from the Atlantic coast of North America. 



Fig. 52. 



Common Dolphin (Delphinus delpliis). 



Fig. 53. 



Skull of Common Dolphin. 



Grampus has no teeth in the upper, and but few in the lower 

 jaw. G. griseus, about 13 feet long, and of very variable colour, 

 is occasionally met with off our coasts : the skeleton is that of an 

 adult female, taken in mackerel -nets, near the Eddystone Light- 

 house, February 28th/ 1870. There are also a stuffed specimen and 

 skeleton of a very young individual, taken a few days afterwards 

 near the same place, and coloured casts of the heads of an adult 

 and young from North America. 



Globicephalus has also few and small teeth, but they are present 

 iti both jaws. It is characterized externally by the rounded form of 

 the head and the very long and narrow pectoral flippers. The best 

 known is G. melas, the Pilot-Whale, Casing- Whale, or Grindhval 

 of the Faroe islanders, which attains a length of 20 feet, and is of 

 nearly uniform black colour, except the middle of the under sur- 



