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Family : 

 GLOBIOCEP HALIDE. 



Globiocephalus intermedins. Harlem. Gray. 



Globiocejykalus melas. Dekay. 



Delphinus globioceps. Jackson (Boston Journal). 



American Black-Fish. 

 Delphinus delphis. Dolphin of all Seas. 



Of this species, there is a part of a skeleton in the Provincial 

 Museum, Halifax, a skull from the ocean, and jaw of one caught 

 near Liverpool, N. S. They all agree in the teeth being more 

 numerous, (from one hundred and fifty to one hundred and 

 sixty,) the rostrum being longer and narrower, the palate having 

 a central ridge with a deep sulcus running inside the teeth, and 

 differ from other skulls in all these particulars. As they coincide 

 with the description of writers on this species, I have no doubt in 

 placing it among the cetre of Nova Scotia. 



Lagenorhyncus Leucoplurus. 



At Digby Gut, August, 1875, I examined two Sea Porpoises 

 shot by the IndiaDS. The measure of one of them taken upon the 

 spot was — 



Length 5 ft. 10 inches. 



From nose to base of nipper 1 " 3 " 



From nose to base of back fin 2 " 8£ " 



Height of back fin 7 " 



Length of back fin 9J " 



Spread of caudal fin 1 " 4£ " 



Length of flipper 9 " 



Length of mouth 7£ 



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Eye from mouth 2 



The other fish was rather larger, but agreed in form and colour. 

 In form they were very round. The forehead sloped upwards from 

 a beak or snout, in a convex line to the back fin which was falcate 



