248 DBLPHINID^. 



8. Delphinus Forsteri. Forster's Dolphin. 



Greeiusli brown or rust-coloured, beneath white ; a small white 

 spot on the disk of the dorsal and pectoral fin. Teeth A4=176, 



acute, erect, conical, incurved. SkuU ? 



Delphinus Delphis, Forder, Descript. Anim: 280 ; Icon. ined. Brit. 



Mm. t. 31. 

 Delphinus Forsteri, Gray, Zool. Freb. ^ Terror, 42. t. 24 (from Forster) ; 

 Cat. Cetac. B. M. 1850, 124. 



Inhab. Pacific Ocean, between New Caledonia and Norfolk Island 

 (^Forster, 1774). 



" Body straight, round, thickest behind ; the pectoral fin tapering 

 at both ends ; head rounded, shelving in front, beaked ; beak straight, 

 pointed, cylindrical, depressed, attenuated and blunt at the tip ; upper 

 jaw shorter, both blunt, toothed ; eyes small, lateral, oblong, nearly 

 in the middle of the side, near the gape of the mouth ; a small hole 

 (the ears) above and behind the eyes ; blower single, between the 

 eyes in crown, lunate ; a linear abdominal sHt a little behind and 

 beneath the dorsal fin, the front part the vulva, the hinder the vent ; 

 teats 2, one on each side the vulva, with a nipple the size of a pea ; 

 tail compressed on the sides, keeled above and below, and attenuated 

 towards the tip ; pectoral fin lanceolate, scarcely as long as the beak ; 

 dorsal fin in the middle of the back, nearly three-sided, falcate 

 behind, as long as the beak ; tail horizontal, two-lobed, each lobe 

 oblong, lateral, subfalcate. 



" Gregarious, swimming very rapidly around the ships and boats. 



" Length 6 feet from nose to tail." — Forster. 



This species resembles, in the distribution of its colouring, the 

 Dauphin d, hande fauve (Voy. Pole Sud), but the band on the side is 

 whitish, not fulvous. 



9. Delphinus Sao. The Sao. 



SkuU : beak elongate, shelving on the sides, with central cartilage 

 near half its length in front ; triangle to the teeth-line ; teeth 

 ^\ l\ , small, cylindrical, hooked ; palate flat in front, with a broad 

 groove extending nearly half its length behind ; intermaxiUaries and 

 palatine distinct, former broad in front ; lower jaw slender, shelving, 

 and flat-sided in front. Length 17 inches, teeth-hne 8| inches, beak 

 10^ inches, width at notch 3^. 



Delphinus Sao, Oray, Cat. Cetac. B. M. 1860, 125. 



Inhab. Madagascar (Dusswnier, 1838). Skull, Mus. Paris. 



10. Delphinus Frithii. 



Delphinus Frithii, Blytk, Rep. Asiatic Sac. Calcutta, 12; Joum. 

 A. 8. B. xxviii. 192 ; Cat. Mui. Asiatic Soc. Bengal, 91. 



Inhab. " Procured, during a voyage from England to India" 

 (iJ. W. 0. Frith, Esq., Jowm. Asiatic Soc. xvi. 386). 



Skull in the Museum of the Asiatic Society of Calcutta, presented 

 by Mr. Frith, and probably an undescribed species, with a general 



