NEW SPECIES OF DELPHINUS. 



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of his labour, both of which he obligingly sent to 

 me, accompanied by some teeth * 



The possession of the head is of considerable in- 

 terest to science, as it obviates all doubt as to the 

 accuracy of the relation given some time after the 

 examination of the subject. The appearance of 

 this part fully confirms what has already been said 

 of it. 



The length of the skull, including the upper jaw, 

 is twenty inches and a half ; the breadth of the 

 jaw across the hinder teeth, is nearly five inches ; 

 on each side there are sockets for twenty teeth, be- 

 sides a long depression behind the posterior socket, 

 for some other purpose. The under jaw is some- 

 what longer, containing twenty-three sockets on 

 each side, making collectively in both jaws eighty- 

 six teeth, a number little inferior to what has hi- 

 therto been noticed in any cetaceous animal descrir 

 bedf. 



The sockets are variable in size, without order, 

 shewing that some teeth were double the size of 

 others, and the approximation of the sockets evinces 



* The teeth of the animal had been all knocked out to satis- 

 fy the curiosity of the spectators, when it was exhibited as a 

 show ; and were so distributed, as to render it difficult to ob- 

 tain many. 



t The Delphis is said to have from 88 to 112. The Phoca> 

 na about 96 at the utmost. The Orca about 60, some only 

 50. In a specimen in the French Museum, each jaw had 22 ; 

 but Artedi enumerates 40 in the lower jaw, 



