Dr. J. E. Gray on a new Species of Pilot-Whale. 319 
This species differs from others in the shape of its head, which is dis- 
tinct, in having a shorter body, broader ventral shields, and seventeen 
rows of scales ; but the dentition and coloration are very similar. 
Notice or A New Species or Pitot-W#HaAve (Giosio- 
CEPHALUS), FROM THE Coast oF DorsetrsHiRE. By Dr. J. 
E. Gray, F.R.S., V.P.Z.S., etc. 
In 1853 the British Museum received the skull of a Cetacean 
which was dredged up at Bridport, on the coast of Dorsetshire, from 
the Rev. John Beecham, of the Wesleyan Mission Board. It is evi- 
dently a species of Globiocephalus; but on comparing it with the 
skull of G. Svineval, the Common Pilot-Whale, and other species of 
Globiocephalus which have come under my observation, it appears to 
be quite distinct from them, and, as I believe, of a species that has 
not before been noticed. 
It is evidently the skull of a large animal, being nearly as large as 
that of the Common Pilot-Whale ; but it is at once distinguished 
from all the other species of that genus by the convexity of the 
palate and the oblong form of the nose of the skull, which is nearly 
of the same width for the greater part of the length, and is regularly 
rounded in front; while in G. Svineval it gradually converges from 
the notch to the apex, and the palate is quite flat, especially in front ; 
and this is the case with all the other species of the genus. 
GLOBIOCEPHALUs INCRASSATUS. Thick-palated Pilot-Whale. 
Teeth a or 3 the nose of the skull attenuated, the sides 
nearly parallel, and regularly rounded in front; the palate very 
convex, especially in the front ; the upper surface of the intermaxil- 
inches 
Length of the skull........ 28 
of the nose........ 14 
of the teeth ...... 8? imperfect, worn at the end. 
Width of nose at the bridge 10 
——- of nose atthe under. 93 
of skull at orbits.... 17 
The back of the skull is higher and much narrower than in the 
skull of G. Svineval. (See woodcuts, pp. 320, 321.) 
This species does not appear to have been observed before as 
British, and I do not find any indication of its having been de- 
scribed as an exotic species. But it is so distinct both in the form 
of the nose of the skull, in the width of the intermaxillary bones, 
and more especially in the thickness and convexity of the palate of . 
the front part of the skull, from the species that has hitherto been 
described, and the differences are so visible, that Mr. Edward Gerrard 
selected it as a distinct species as soon as he saw it. 
It has been suggested that this may perhaps be the other sex of 
the common Pilot-Whale (Globiocephalus Svineval); but I can 
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