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13. Tvusio compressioaudus. The Compressed-tailed Dolphin, 

 Teetif^, small, conical, hooked; head coloured; belly whitish; 

 pectoral short ; upper jaw longest ; nose short ; base of the tail com- 

 pressed on each side. 



PhocEena compressicauda, Lesson, CMac. 199 ; F. Cuv. CUac. 186 (from 



^arnot, MS.). 

 Delphinus compressicauda, Gray, Cat. Cetac. B. M. 1850, 109. 



Inhab. lat. 4° S., long. 26° E. of Paris. ^^ .^ 



Animal : Length to pectoral 1 8 



Expanse of tail 1 7 



The following species of this family lequire further exatnination : — 



1. D. velox, Dusskm.; Cuv. H. A. i. 288 ; F. Cuv. Mamm. Lith. t. ; C6tac. 



154; Puchet-an, Rev. §■ Mag. Zool. 1856, 362. 



Teeth ^ ; nose rather more elongated.! — Cuvier. Teeth |-|- ; grey, 

 lips and lower jaw whitish. — F. Guv. 

 Inhab. Ceylon. 

 Skull : Mus. Paris (PucJieran). 



2. Delphinus Boryi, Deem. Mamm. 615 ; Desmmdin, Diet. Class, H. N. 



1. 141. f.2; Gray, Cat. Cetac. B.M. 1850, 132. 



Inhab. Madagascar. (Coast of New Holland ?) 



3. Delphinus longer, Schreh. Saugeth. t. 362?; Wiegmann; Seichb. Naturg. 



Cetac. 12, 41. 1. 16. f. 51 ;■ Gray, Cat. Cetac. B. M. 1850, 120. 



Lead-coloured; middle of sides, chest, and belly white; rather 

 flexuous line from orbit to the lumbar region lead-coloured. 

 Inhab. ? 



4. Delphinus Pernettyi, Desm. Mamm. 543 ; Gray, Cat. Cetac. B. M. 



1850, 132. 

 D. Pemettensis, Blainv. ; Desm. N. D. H. N. ix. 154. 

 D. Delphis, var. a, Bonnat. Cetol. 21. 

 Delphinorhynchus Pernettyi, Lesson, Man. 406, from Dauphin, 



Fernett. toy. 99. t. 2. f. 1. 



Inhab. ? 



6. D. Chinensis, Desm., from Osbeck, Voy, ; Cfray, Cat. Cetac. B. M. 

 1850, 132. 



Shining white. 

 Inhab. Chinese seas. 



6. Delphinus hamatus, Fhrenb. ; Beichb. Cetac. No. 1, Anat. t. 21 ; Gray, 



Cat. Cetac. B. M. 1850, 131. 



Beak once and a half the length of the skull, twice and a half the 

 width at the notch ; teeth |4-. 



7, Delphinus Chamissonis, Wiegm. ; Schreb. Supp. t. 859 : Beichb. Cetac 



126. 66. t. 22. f. 64, 65; Graij, Cat. Cetac. B. M. 1860, 181. 

 Delphinus albirostratua, J. Peak, U. 8. Fxpl. Exped. 34 (t. 6. f. 2. 

 ined.) ; Gray, Cat. Cetac. B. M. 1850, 183. 



Elongate, dorsal fln nearer the head, dark blue-grey; fins and 



