208 , MAMMALIA. 
D. phocena, L.; Lacep. XI, f. 2. (The Common Por- 
poise.) The teeth compressed, frenenant and rounded, from 
twenty-two to twenty-five on each side in Pach jaw; blackish 
above, white beneath. It is the smallest of the “Cetacea, seldom 
exceeding four or five feet in length; very common in all our 
seas, where it is found in large troops. 
D. capensis, Dussum. (The Cape Porpoise.) Similar to the 
preceding, but has twenty-eight teeth throughout, cylindrical, 
slightly pointed, and not compressed like those of the common 
species. From the Cape seas. 
D. orca and D. gladiator; Buts-kopf and Schwerd-fisch of the 
Hollanders and Germans; Lacep. XV, 1, and not so well, V, 3. 
(The Grampus.)(1) Teeth, thick, conical and slightly hooked, 
eleven every where; the posterior ones flattened’ transversely 
the body black above, white underneath; a white spot on the 
eye in the form of a crescents; the dorsal fin elevated and pointed. 
It is the largest of the Dolphins, being frequently found from 
twenty to twenty-five feet in length, and is the most relentless. 
enemy of the Whale. They attack it in troops and torment it. 
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until it opens its mouth, when they devour the tongue. | tes ae id 
D. aries, Risso; Ann. Mus. XIX, pl.i, fig: 4. A ‘smaller s spe- 
cies sometimes seen upon the coast of France, which soon loses 
the upper teeth and preserves only a few of the lower ones. 
Its dorsal fin is lower and further back than that of the Gram- 
pus.(2) a: 4 
D. globiceps, Cuv.(3 Anh, Mus. XIX, pl. i, fig..2 and 3; 2). 
deductor, Scoresby. (The Round-headed Grampus.) Top of 
the head so arched as to be globular; long, pointed, pectoral 
fins; it is more than twenty feet in length; black, with a white 
stripe from the throat to the anus. It lives in troops of several 
hundreds, led by the old males, and is sometimes thrown upon 
the coasts of Europe. It has from nine to thirteen teeth through- 
out, but loses them all with age. 
(1) Grampus, a corruption of grand poisson. Buts kopf, or rather Boots kopf, sig- 
nifies that its head is made like a long-boat. Schwerd jisch, Sword-fish, from its 
dorsal fin. 
(2) The Epaulard ventru of Bonnaterre, Lacep. XV, 3, copied from Hunter, 
Phil. Trans. presents a similar form; but Hunter’s specimen was eighteen feet 
long, and ours never exceeds ten. 
The D. griseus, Ann. Mus., XIX, pl. i, f. 1, is merely a bad drawing of this D. 
aries, lb. f. 4. \ The true aries of the ancients is the Grampus. 
(S) It is the head of the D. globiceps deprived of its teeth, which is engraved in 
Bonnaterre, Cetol. pl. vi, f. 2: and in Lacep. pl. ix, f, 2, under the name of 
Cachalot swinewal; and in Camper, Cet. pl. xxxii, xxxiii and xxxiy, under that of 
the Toothless Narwhal. 
