3^4 MAMMALIA. -CETE. -Dolphin, 



Turing nine or ten feet in length by two in diameter ; the fnout is- long, and fomewhat fliarp, with a 

 broad tranfverfe band, or projection of the fkin, on its upper part -, the opening of the mouth is very 

 extenfive, reaching almoft to the thorax, and contains forty teeth, twenty-one above and nineteen be- 

 low, which are above an inch long, conical at their upper ends, fliarp.pointed, a little bent inwards,- and 

 placed at fome diftance from each other, fo that, when the mouth is fliut, they lock into each other. 

 The Dolphin fwims with great velocity, and preys on fifh ; it is- fometimes feen adhering to Whales, 

 when they leap out of the water ;. it is naturally ftraight, and only a-ffumes the crooked form, given 

 by painters, when leaping. 



806 3. Grampus. — 3. Delphinus Orca. 3. 



The ncfe is flat and turned upwards ; the teeth are broad and ferrated. Mantiff. mam. ii 

 523. Faun. fuec. 52. Art. gen. 76. fyn. 106. Gun. aft. nidrof. iv. no. 



Delphinus Orca, having blunt teeth, and one fin on the back. Briff..regn.,.an. 373. n. 4. Ba~ 



laena minor, having teeth in both jaws. Sibb. Scot. an. 24. Raj. pifc. 15. — Orca. Plin. hift. rrat. 

 ix. c. 6. xxxii. c. 1 1. Belon. aq. 16. f. p. 18. Rondel, pifc. 483. Gefn. aq. 748. . Schonev. ichth. 

 .53. Aldrov. pifc, 6.97. f.,p. 698. Jonft. pifc. 217. Charlet. exerc. pifc. 47. Willoughb. pifc. 40. 

 Raj. pifc. 1 p. Klein, mifc. pifc'. ii. .22. %..i. f. I. Steller, Camtfchatc. 104. — Wagnhyalur, Hual- 

 hund. Muf. worm. 279. — Euts-kopf. Mart, fpitzb. 93. Anderf. ifl. 252. Crantz. groenl. 1.51.^- 

 Buts-kopper. Egede, groenl. $6. — Grampus. Penn. Brit. zool. iii. n. 26. Arft. zool. app. p. 102. — 

 .Killer. Catefby, app. 32. Dudley, in phil. tranf. abr. vii. 428. 



807 fi. Svvor'd Grampus. — 3-/3. D. Orca.enfidorfatus. 



The nofe feems truncated ; the teeth are fliarp pointed ; on the back is a very long s 

 Tword-like, fpine, or bony fin. Briff. regn. an. 372. n. 3. Mull. zool. dan. 8. n. 57. 



Schwerclt fifch. Anderf. ifl. 255. Crantz. groenl. 152. Mart, fpitzb. 94. — Sword fifh. Catefby, 

 app. 32. — High-finned Cachalot. Penn. Brit. zool. iii. n. 23. Arft. zool. app. p. 102. 



Inhabits' the European feas, the Atlantic, towards the Antarctic Pole, and Davifes Straits. — This 

 is the largeft- fpecies of the genus, being twenty-four or twenty-five feet long, and from ten to thir- 

 teen feet in diameter, where thickeft ; it is black on the back, and white on the belly; the lower jaw 

 is much larger than the upper, and forty blunt teeth are contained in both jaws, arranged at 

 Rich diftances as to receive each other into the intervals, when the jaws are lhut ; the nofe is turned 

 upwards ; the eyes are very fmall ; the fpout-hole is on the top of the head, and has two orifices. 

 The fpine, or bony fin, on the back of the Sword Grampus, is often fix feet long ; it is broader at 

 the bf.fe, and refembles a fcymeter or bent fword, being, however, covered with the common fkin of 

 the back. 



The Grampus is a bitter enemy to the Whales ; great flocks of them attack the largeft Whales, 

 which they faften round like fo many Bull-dogs, making them roar with pain, and often kill and 

 devour them. The Grampus likewife carries on a conftant war againft the Seals, which it pufhes off 

 from the recks into the fea by means of its long back fin. They likewife feed on fifh of the Floun- 

 der genus. 



3 3 4. Beluga. — 4. Delphinus lencas. 4. 



Has a blunt conical fnout fomewhat turned downwards ; and no back fin. Pall. It. iii. 



84. t. 4. Briff. regn. an. 374. n. 5. 



Beluga. 



