Hurrox.— Notes on the New Zealand Delphinide. 849 
Art. XXXIX.—Notes on the New Zealand Delphinide. By Captain F. W. 
Hvrrox, Director of the Otago Museum. 
[Read before the Otago Institute, 4th July, 1876.] 
A. Head beaked. 
DELPHINUS NOVJE-ZEALANDULE. 
D. nove-zealandia, Quoy et Gaimard, ** Voyage * Astrolabe, " Zool., I., p. 
149, Pl. 28, Fig. 1. D. delphis, Forster (nee L.), ** Descriptiones, ' 
etc., p. 280. D. forsteri, Gray, ** Voyage * Erebus’ and ‘Terror, " p. 
42, Pl. 24 (copied from Forster). D. fosteri, Hector, “ Trans. N.Z. 
Inst.," Vol. V., p. 158, Pl. III. 
Beak at least half the length of the gape. Pectoral fins shorter than the 
gape. Teeth, 43—44., Above, brown; below, white; the white extending 
above the eye; caudal, dorsal and pectoral fins dark, the dorsal and pecto- 
rals with a large white blotch. Length, about six feet. 
Habitat: The North Island of New Zealand as far as Cook Strait, Tas- 
mania, and the sea between Norfolk Island and New Caledonia. Forster 
gives the habitat as the Pacific Ocean. 
A careful comparison of the descriptions and figures of Quoy and Gai- 
mard, with those of Forster, leaves no doubt as to the identity of D. fosteri 
with D. nova-zealandia. 
B. Head not beaked. 
CLYMENIA OBSCURA. 
Delphinus obscurus, Gray, ** pic. Zool." Vol. IL, Pl. 2, Figs. 2, 8; 
Quoy et Gaimard, ** Voyage, * Astrolabe, " Zool., Vol. I., p. 151, PI. 
28, Fig. 8. Clymenia obscura, Gray, “ P.Z.S." 1866, p. 215, and 
1868, p. 147, Fig. 1; Hector, ** Trans. N.Z. Inst.," Vol. V., p. 160. 
Head not beaked ; dorsal fin faleate ; pectorals longer than the distance 
from the muzzle to the eye. Teeth, 31 3$. Back and fins blackish, muzzle 
and belly white ; a white band from below the dorsal fin sloping obliquely 
downward and TERET towards the tail. Length, about five feet; teeth, 
five in an inch. 
Habitat: Not uncommon in Cook Strait. The original type is from the 
Cape of Good Hope, but in his synopsis of the whales and dolphins, Dr. 
Gray gives the South Pacific as the habitat. Dr. Gray has referred D. 
cruciger, Quoy et Gaimard, and D. bivittatus, Lesson (** Voyage, * Coquille’ ”’), 
to this species, but they are certainly distinct, having white pectoral fins. 
They come from Cape Horn. 
TuRSIO METIS. 
T. metis, Gray, ‘ Zool." * Erebus’ and ‘Terror, ” p. 88, Pl. 18 (skull); Hec- 
tor, * Trans N.Z. Inst." Vol. V., p. 162; Hutton, ** Ann. Nat. 
Hist.," 1875, p. 857, and Fig. ; Trans. N.Z. list ," Vol. VIII, p. 180. 
