2o8 EELPHINIDJB. 



6. Tursio trimcatus. Botttenose Dolphin. 

 Black, whitish beneath. Teeth f^, truncated when old; skull- 

 nose five-ninths of the entire length ; intermaxillaries very convex, 

 forming a strong rib on each side above ; intermaxilla and vomer 

 forming part of the peilate. 



Delphinus Tursio, O. Fabr. Fauna Grcml 49 ; Wright, Mag. N. H. ii. 



609, 1838; Bormat. CUae. 21. t. 11. f. 1; Schreh. Saugeth. t. 344; 



Desm. Mamm. 614 ; Fischer, Syn. 508 ; Oray., Zool. Erebus 8f Terror, 



37. 1. 10 (animal); Cat. Cetac. B. M. 1850, 109; P. Z. 8. 1864; W.B. 



Clark, Ann. 8f Mag. 'N. H. ; Van Beneden, Nmtv. Mini. Acad. Roy. 



Brux. xxxii. 32 ; Schhgel, de Bieren, 86. 1. 12 (var. obtusiis, t. 13) ; 



Fleming, Brit. Anim. 35; Jenyns, Man. 41 ; Bell, Brit. Quad. 469. 



fig., 472. fig. ; Nilsson, 8kand. Fauna, 602. 

 Tm:sio truncatua. Bottle-nose Whale, Oray, List Mam, B. M. 104. 

 Tursiops Tm'sio, Gervais, Comptes Bendus, 1864, 876. 

 Delphinus Orca, Gerard, Diet. Sci. Nat. 75. 



Delphinus Ne8amal:,Xac^^. CH. 307 ; Desm. Mamm. 516, from O. Fah. 

 Delphinus truncatus, Montagu, Wern. Trans, iii. t. 5, f. 3 (skull), 



cop. Sell, Brit. Quad. 472, fig. 

 Bottlcnose, Hunter, Phil. Trans. Ixxxvii. t. 18, cop. Bonnat. CUol, 



t. 11. f. 1, and Bell, Brit. Quad. 469, 1787, fig. 

 L'Orque (Orca), Bellon, Agruat. f. 6. tab. at p. 18. 

 Dauphin vulgaire, Camper, Cetab. t. 85-40 (skull). 

 Grand Dauphin, ou Soufiieur, Cuvier, B. A. i. 278. 

 Anat. Ctevier, Oss. Foss. v. 277. t. 21. f. 3, 4, t. 23. f. 18, 22, 23, 29; 



Camper, Cetac. t. 36-40 ; Mont. Wern. Trans, iii. t. 5, 

 Var. P Uniform deep black. Delphiaus Tursio, Schlegel, AbhamB,. t. 6. 



f. 1, 2, t. 4. f. 9. 



Black : a blotch over the pectoral and over the vent. 



Var. ? Delphinus Tursio, Sundevall, CEfv. Kongl. Vetensk. Akad. 18SI, 

 385, t. 7. 



Inhab. Mediterranean and North Sea. Coast of south of Ireland, 

 Nov. 1828 (iS. Templefoh). Mouth of the ' Thames, Nore, June 

 1828 {HowsUp) ; skull, Mus. Coll. Surg. no. 1125. Orwell, May 10, 

 1849. Devonshire, Eiver Dart (^MorMgu) ; skuU Brit. Mus. Mrth 

 of Forth ; skeleton, Mus. University, Edinburgh ; skeleton in Sur- 

 geons' HaU, Edinburgh,' teeth aciife. Holland; skeleton, Leyden. 

 North coast of France ; fekeleton at Paris. Belgium ; skeleton, 

 Ghent, Denmark; skeleton, Mus. Copeiihagen. 



a. SkuU and teeth. 



6. Skull ; bad state. From Dr. Mantell's Collection. 



In the ' Zoology of the Erebus and Terror,' tab. 10, is a copy of 



a most accurate iawing, by Mr. E. Templeton, of a specimen caught 



on the south coast of Ireland, in November 1828. The following 



are its measurements : — „, . ,. 



It. in. Im. 



Length, entire 8 1 3 



Length from snout to the eyes 1 



Length to the ear .' 1 2 5 



Length to the base of the pectoral . . 1 6 9 



Length to the end of the pectoral .... 2 6 7 



