246 DR. J. E, GRAY ON BRITISH CETACEA. [May 24, 
Hab. North Sea. Near the shore in all seasons, and ascends 
rivers. 
“* A season seldom passes without their appearance at Greenwich 
and Deptford, and they occasionally pass much higher up ’’ (C. Col- 
lingwood, 1858); Battersea, Gray, 1815. i 
‘‘The Porpoise enters the Baltic by the Sound in large numbers 
in the spring, in pursuit of the Herrings, and leaves it by the Little 
Belt in December and January ”’ (Eschricht). 
Professor Rapp (Cetac. t. 5) figures the skeleton of Delphinus pho- 
cena. ‘The scapula with a broad, dilated coracoid process. Fin- 
gers five, short ; the first longest; the third scarcely shorter ; the 
second shorter; the fourth and fifth very short ; the fifth slender. 
Spinous processes of the dorsal and lumbar vertebree with a distinct 
subcentral anterior process on each side. The lateral processes of the 
lumbar vertebrze short and broad”’ (Rapp, J. c.). 
** Teeth early deciduous, conical; dorsal fin none. 
11. BeLvuea. 
Teeth in both jaws early deciduous. 
Beluga, Gray, Spice. Zool. 2; Zool. E. & T. t. 29. f. 3; Cat. Cetac. 
7 
M. Van Beneden observes that he has seen skulls varying from 
8— 0— . : . . 
— t —, and all intermediate combinations ; 9/8 seem the most 
frequent (Nouv. Mém. Acad. Brux. xxxii. 16). 
BeLuGa caTopoNn. Beluga or White Whale. 
Balena minor in inferiore, &c., Sibbald, Bal. 9; Ray, Syn. 
Pie. 1D. 
Physeter catodon, Linn. 8. N. (from Sibbald) ; Turton, B. Fauna, 
16; Jenyns, Man. 45. 
Delphinus leucas, Pallas, Mem. Wern. Soc. iui. 17, t., d; Bell, 
Brit. Quad. 491; Nilsson, Scand. Fauna, 614. 
Catodon sibbaldi, Fleming, B. A. 39. 
Beluga leucas, Gray, Spic. Zool. 2; Bell, B. Quad. 488. fig., 491. 
fig. 
Beluga catodon, Gray, Zool. E. & T. 29. 
Delphinus albicans, O. Fab. F. G. 50; Jenyns, Man. 43. 
Delphinapterus albicans, Fleming, B. A. 36. 
Hab. North Sea. Scotland (Sibbald). 
Two males were cast ashore on the beach of the PentlandFrith, 
some miles east of Thurso, in August 1793 (Colonel Murie). A 
specimen was killed near Sterling in June 1815, and described by 
Dr. Barclay and Mr. Neil in ‘ Wern. Mem.’ iii. 371. t. 27. It is 
gregarious, entering large rivers. 
12, Monopon. 
Teeth very early deciduous. Male with a projecting spiral tusk 
in the upper jaw. 
