Cetacea. 1527 



Length of body, entire 

 tail 



ft. 



in. 



4 



2 



1 



4 







5i 



Its feet are very much furred between the the balls ; back of the shoulders clothed 

 with a shaggy mane ; the fur on the body is coarse and long and hard to the touch, 

 each hair being white at the root, then annulated with black, then reddish, then white, 

 and tipped with black, giving the back and sides a yellowish gray appearance ; fore- 

 head clear gray ; lower parts, insides of the ears, throat, chin, and upper lip, dingy 

 white ; tail, neck, back of the ears, and nose from the eyes to the point rusty brown ; 

 the same colour surrounding the eyes in a clearly defined ring ; legs pale reddish 

 brown ; claws, tip of the tail, and naked part of the lips and nose black ; irides bright 

 orange brown ; teeth were in number and situation as follows : — Incisors §, ca- 

 nine \ — \, molars f — |, = 34. This specimen has scarcely any appearance of the 

 black ring about the wrists, mentioned in the * Naturalist's Library,' as a marking 

 found in adults. — F. B. Goodacre ; Lutterworth, September 1st, 1846. 



Note on a species of Delphinorhynchus. — The 'Zoologist ' of this month contains a 

 valuable notice, by M. Julian Deby, of Delphinorhynchus, which has put me in mind 

 that during my late voyage to Jamaica, that rare Cetacean fell under my obseivation in 

 somewhat interesting circumstances, a detail of which may not be uninteresting to M . 

 Deby, and your readers in general. Perhaps you would prefer to have the notes in 

 the freshness of the original record, and for their freshness, bear with their roughness. 

 I merely premise, that, having been familiar with the Delphinidae in many former At- 

 lantic voyages, I took for granted, I should meet with some in this one, and wishing 

 to settle the question, whether any of the true dolphins do spout, I had studied the or- 

 der a little, before sailing, and in particular had made careful drawings of the form of 

 the head of all the genera figured in Jardine's ' Cetacea,' that I might not depend on 

 that treacherous guide, memory. November 22nd, 1844. Lat. at noon 19°, 1' N. 

 Long. 45° 42' W. ; the trade-wind blowing a most exhilirating breeze, with fine wea- 

 ther. Between three and four o'clock in the afternoon, a herd of large Cetaceans ap- 

 peared astern, trooping towards the ship ; they soon came up and began to play around 

 us, continuing to romp and frolic in the manner of dolphins all the evening ; and even 

 long after nightfall, they were still in company, being plainly visible by the light of 

 the moon. During this long time I had many fair opportunities of observing them. 

 They frequently protruded their heads from the surface, and then presently the huge 

 round back, with a small dorsal far behind, was seen. In going along beside the ship, 

 one would occasionally turn on its back, displaying the white belly, and thus swim 

 along. The muzzle was lengthened into a snout, but, as well as I could judge from 

 many exposures, it tapered gradually without a furrow, and resembled that of Delphi- 

 norhynchus, which they probably were ; but surely not either D. micropterus, or ros- 

 tratus, which are the only species I find in Cuvier. (My grounds for this conclusion 

 were, as nearly as I can now recollect, the animal being far too long for micropterus, 

 and the dorsal too small for rostratus). As nearly as I could estimate from aloft, by 

 comparison with the ship, their length was about thirty feet, or perhaps not quite so 



