﻿172 AN ACCOUNT OF A NEW SPECIES OF DELPHINUS. 



Head obtufe, fomewhat carinated on the upper and 

 anterior part, fuddenly tapering to a long, 

 (lender, but llrong beak, or mouth; (not unlike 

 thatoffome birds.) The jaws are llrong, thojjgh 

 flender: nearly equal, and al mod flraight. Ta- 

 ken fingly, they are fub-cyliudrical, and without 

 lips, or any other fubflance to hide the teeth. 

 Their length is nearly about a fixth part of the 

 length of the whole animal, beak and tail included. 



Teeth, in both jaws one hundred and twenty; of 

 which there arc thirty in each fide of each jaw ; 

 thofe before are longer, fliarper, more approxi- 

 mated, and fomewhat incurved; they become 

 gradually fmallcr, (horter, and more remote, as 

 ihey approach the throat ; and are fitted to lock, 

 into thofe of the oppofite jaw when the mouth 

 is fhut. 



Tongue large, oval, firmly attached in its whole 

 length to the integuments which connect the 

 polterior furcated part of the lower jaw. 



JlvES exceedingly minute, being only about a line in 

 diameter, of a bright, fhining, blackifh colour; 

 fituate nearly two inches above the polterior an- 

 gles of the mouth; and funk pretty deep in their 

 fmall round orbits. 



Fistula, or fpout hole, is fituate on the upper part 

 or crown of the head; it is linear, and fomewhat 

 bent like the letter/. 



Ears external, two fmall, femilunar apertures, con- 

 fiderably behind, and a little above the eyes. 



Fins pectoral, of an obliqiie fan-fiiape, about nine 

 inches long, and (even broad at the polterior 

 margin, which is fcolloped; beneath their fkin 

 jnay be felt the bones, extending to the angles of 



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