92 COMMON DOLPHIN. Class IV. 



smooth, the color of the back and sides dusky ; 

 the belly whitish. 



It swims with great swiftness : its prey is* 

 fishes. 



It was, in the reign of queen Elizabeth, 

 reckoned a great delicacy : Doctor Caius* 

 says, that one which was taken in his time, 

 was thought a present worthy the Duke of 

 Norfolk, who distributed part of it among his 

 friends. It was roasted and dressed with por- 

 pesse sauce, made of crumbs of fine white 

 bread, mixed with vinegar and sugar. 



This species of dolphin must not be con- 

 founded with that to which seamen give the 

 name, the latter being quite another kind of 

 fish, the CoryphcEna Hippuris of Linnceus,^ and 

 the Dorado of the Portuguese, described by 

 JVillughby, p. 213. 



* Opusc. 116. f Gm. Lin. U8Q. 



