114 SPECIMENS OF CETACEA. 



and markedly concave in front of nares ; beak broad, 

 flat ; pterygoids large, almost meeting mesiallj'' ; 

 dorsal lin at middle of back, moderately high, 

 with long base ; pectoral limb falcate. 



(1) GlOBICEPHALUS MEL as. (Gl. M.) 

 (Pilot Whale, Ca'ing Whale, Round-headed Whale.) 

 Delphinus melas, Traill, Nicliolson' s Journal, xxii., 1809. 

 Globiocephalus svineval, Gray, Zool. Erebus and Terror, 1840. 



Colour black, white band on ventral surface ; length 

 about 20 feet ; gregarious ; teeth small, conical 

 in anterior part of jaws ; V. formula C-D^^L^^ to ^^ 

 Cdgy to.2f, = 57 to 60. Feeds on cuttle-tish. 



1. Skeleton, articulated, with caudal lin. Length 10 feet 



3 inches. Vertebral formula C^D^oLCd. 



Donor— DrF. B. Archer, Barbados, 1871. 



2. Skull of a fcetus 5 feet 8 inches long ; length of skull 



14 inches, breadth 7 1 inches; beak 6.^ inches long, 



3 A inches bi-oad ; teeth small, acute, r^-. -pr. 

 ^ 10 10 



Aberdeenshire Coast, 1871. 



Donor — Sir John Struthers, 1895. 



3. Skull, adult, with mandible ; length 27| inches, breadth 



19^ inches; beak, length of, 15 inches, breadth 11 

 inches ; teeth absent. Premaxilla broadest at the 

 middle, 4 inches, not completely covering superior 

 maxilla; prenasal surface markedly concave, mid 

 surface convex ; ossification of mesethmoid extending 

 5 inches between premaxillas. Monro Collection. 



4. Skull, without mandible; length 27 inches, breadth 19 i 



inches; beak 15 inches long, breadth 11 inches; teeth 



9 9 

 in anterior part of jaw, small, acute, — . Premaxilla 



as in No. 3. 



Granton, Firth of Forth. 



Donor — Sir John Murray, K.C.B. 



5. Skull, adult, without mandible ; length 25} inches, breadth 



17| inches; beak, length 14^ inches, breadth 10^ 

 inches ; teeth absent. Premaxilla broadest at the 

 middle (3^ inches), not completely covering superior 

 maxilla; prenasal surface concave, mid surface con- 

 vex ; ossification of mesethmoid extending for 5 

 inches between premaxilla^. 



