260 DELPHINID^. 



flat. A skeleton in the Sui-geons' Hall of Edinburgh, from the same 

 locality, has them all acute. The latter is named D. Belphis. The 

 atlas (or first) and second cervical vertebrse united by the body and 

 lateral processes ; the third to the seventh cervical vertebrse free. 



A specimen with teeth fl, large, conical, acute, was taken in the 

 Eiver OrweU, May 10, 1849. 



Mr. Charles D. Meigs described the foetus of Belphinus Nesamah, 

 Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad. i.,267; see Arch. Naturg. 1832, 64. 



Col. Montagu described an old specimen, taken on the 3rd of July 

 1814, in Duncannon Pool near Stoke Gabriel, about fivemUes up the 

 river Dart, as D. truncatus (Worn. Trans, iii. 75. t. 3). It was 

 12 feet long. The skull, which came into Montagu's possession, is 

 now in the British Museum. 



First described as British by John Hunter, under the name of the 

 Bottle-nose Whale, in the ' Phil. Trans.' for 1787, t. 18. It was 

 caught on the sea-coast near Berkley, and the skeleton is now in the 

 Museum of the College of Surgeons. 



Mr. Jenyns mentions one observed by Mr, Gilbertson in the river 

 at Preston in Lancashire (Manual, p. 41). 



The skeleton of this species is described by Professor Owen from 

 a female specimen taken at the Nore, June 1828, in company with 

 a male. " It survived many hours after having been dragged out 

 of the water, during which time it einitted a sound not unHke the 

 beUowing of a calf."— Cai. Osteol. Series Goll.Swg. p. 449. n.2483. 



Professor Owen observes that Cuvier assigns to DebphirmsTursio 

 from 42 to 46 teeth in each jaw ; so' that the teeth seem to vary from 

 40 to 50 in each jaw. 



In a second skuU in the same collection (no. 2484) " a greater por- 

 tion of the crown is worn away in all except the last two or three, 

 and a large proportion of the unenamelled fang is exposed, upon 

 which their more oblique position and larger proportionate size 

 appear to depend" (p. 451). 



In the same collection (no. 2485) is " the skuU of an apparently 

 aged specimen, with a disease of the jaws; aU the teeth are lost, 

 and the sockets are obliterated, except at the anterior part of the 

 alveolar tracts, where they are very shallow." 



The axis and atlas coalesced (nos. 2483, 2488). " The cervical 

 vertebrae are very thin, and.separate. Vertebrae 41, of which 13 are 

 dorsal. First bone of the sternum not pierced, with blunt lateral 

 angles. Bladebone with the acromion larger and more rectilinear 

 with the spine than in D. Belphis." — Quvier, Oss. Foss. v. 305. 



"This species is not so beautifully marked with lines as the 

 D. Belphis. The snout is much shorter, the upper jaw not so long 

 as the lower. The dorsal fin smaller and more posterior, as I noticed 

 in a specimen inspected at Plymouth. The eye appears small, and is 

 placed more directly over the angle of the mouth ; the teeth small, 

 ■conical, 23 on each side." — Couch, Cornish Whales, 39. 



Fursiops Tursio is not so rare as Grampus Bissoanus, but far less 

 , common than Belphinus Belphis. M. Gervais hjis specimens taken 

 in the Gulf of Lyons, especially at Cette and La Nouvelle, and at 



