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CETA CEA . DELPHINIDJE. 



(ODONTOCETL) 



Genus GLOBICEPHALUS (Lesson, 1842). 



Generic Character : Head rounded ; no beak. Dorsal-fin long ; flippers 

 very long and narrow, the second digit having 14 phalanges. Teeth large, 

 conical, many of them soon lost. 



PILOT-WHALE. 



Globicephalus melas (Trail). 



Specific Character : Black, a whitish stripe along the belly, forming in 

 front a heart-shaped spot under the throat. Teeth sometimes |^:||, generally 

 fewer ; vertebrae 56, and ribs 12 pairs. Length of adult 16 to 20 feet. 



Delpkinus melas, TRAIL, Nichols. Journ., XXII., 81 (1809). 



globiceps, CUVIBR, Ann. du Mus., XIX., 1, pi. I. (1812). 

 deductor, SCORESBT, Arct. Regions, I., 496. 



Ca'ing Whale of Orcadians. Orindeval of Faroese. Bottle-head, Bottle- 

 nose, and Grampus of English fishermen. 



OUR knowledge of the habits of many of the ceta- 

 ceous animals is so meagre, and our opportunities of 

 observing them are so rare and imperfect, that it is often 

 difficult, to seize upon any facts of interest and impor- 

 tance to enliven the dry detail of formal description. 

 Such, however, is not the case with the present remark- 

 able species. From the sociability of its habits, its 

 strong instinct of attachment, and a tendency to imita- 



