4 PROF. W. H. FLOWER ON THE EXTERNAL CHARACTERS 
This figure is reproduced on a reduced scale in Bell’s ‘British Quadrupeds.’ Bonna- 
terre’s figure of the Nesarnak (D. tursio), in his ‘ Cétologie,’ 1789, pl. xi. fig. 1, appears 
to be a modified copy of the same, though without acknowledgment. The three 
transverse pale lines crossing the dark part of the body below the dorsal fin, which 
form a marked feature in this figure, have not been observed in other specimens ; 
they somewhat resemble the pale vertical lines which cross the sides of the two speci- 
mens of the young of Risso’s Dolphin which have been figured '. 
Another original figure is that given by Dr. Gray in the 10th Plate of the ‘ Zoology 
of the Erebus and Terror.’ It is from a drawing by Mr. R. Templeton, from a specimen 
caught in the south of Jreland in November 1828, and evidently a young one, as 
its length was only 7 feet 6 inches. It does not bear the appearance of very great 
accuracy; the dorsal fin, especially, is more elevated and erect than in any of the 
others. Schlegel’s figure in his ‘ Abhandlungen aus dem Gebiete der Zoologie und ver- 
gleichenden Anatomie,’ Heft 1, 1841, from a specimen 11 feet long, taken off the coast 
of Holland and stuffed in the Leiden Museum, besides differing in form (especially in 
the very small size of the pectoral fin) from that known to be characteristic of the 
species, is represented of a uniform black colour; but it is not stated that this was the 
case when the animal was fresh, and may have been due to changes in the process of 
preservation. 
There can be little doubt of the correctness of Cuvier’s identification of the animal 
taken at Tréport, on the coast of Normandy, in the beginning of May 1551, exhibited 
at the Hotel de Nevers at Paris, and described by Belon under the name of “ Oudre” 
or “Orca,” with this species. It was 94 feet long, and had half as many teeth as the 
true Dolphin, or eighty in all, not counting some small rudimentary ones in front. 
Accepting this determination, the three species of which Belon was the first to give 
original and tolerably accurate figures and descriptions are Delphinus delphis, D. tursio, 
and Phocena communis. 
A good description, but without figure, of a specimen taken upon the Suffolk coast 
is given by Dr. W. B. Clarke in the Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 2, vol. iv. p. 100 
(1849). 
The specimen now figured was taken, with several others, near Holyhead, on the 
5th of October, 1868. Like the one above described, it was sent to Mr. Buckland, to 
whose kindness I am indebted for the opportunity of drawing and describing it. The 
skeleton was prepared for the Oxford University Museum. It was a male, not quite 
full-grown, as the condition of the epiphyses showed. 
The principal dimensions were :— 
* Flower, Trans. Zool. Soc. vol. viii. pl. 1.; Murie, Journ. Anat. Phys. (Noy. 1870) vol. v. pl. v.; Cope, 
Proc. A. N.S, Philadelphia, 1876, pl. iii. 
