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CETA CEA . DELPIIINIDjE. 



iODONTOCETI.) 



Genus Globicephalus (Lesson, 1842). 



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

 very long and narrow^ the second digit Laving 14 phalanges. Teetli large, 

 conical, many of them soon lost. 



PILOT-WHALE. 



Globicephalus melas (Trail). 



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

 front a heart-shaped spot under the throat. Teeth .sometimes st-'-^. generally 

 fewer ; verteln-se 50, and ribs 12 pairs. Length of adult 16 to 20 feet. 



Belphinus melas, Tr.\il, Nichols. Journ., XXIL, SI (1809). 



„ glohicepa, Cuvier, Ann. du Mus., XIX., 1, pi. I. (1812). 



,, deductor, Scoresby, Arct. Regions, I., 496. 



Ca'inrj Whale of Orcadians. Grindcval 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 

 obsei'ving 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 iniita- 



