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CETACEAN GALLERY. 
Gallery. There are also casts of the heads of a pair of this and 
of Tursiops tursio, from the Atlantic coast of North America. 
Common Dolphin {Delphinus clelphis). 
Skull of Common Dolphin. 
Gram 2 ms has no teeth in the upper, and but few in the lower 
jaw. G. (jriseuSj about 13 feet long, and of very variable colour, 
is occasionally met with off our coasts : the skeleton is that of an 
adult female, taken in mackerel-nets, near the Eddystone Light- 
house, February 28th, 1870. There are also a stuffed specimen and 
skeleton of a very young individual, taken a few days afterwards 
near the same place, and coloured casts of the heads of an adult 
and young from North xVmerica. 
Glubicephalus has also few and. small teeth, but they are present 
HI both jaws. It is characterized externally by the rounded form of 
the head and the very long and narrow ])cctoral flippers. The best 
known is G. melas, the Pilot-AVhale, Caring-Whale, or Giindhval 
of the Faroe islanders, which attains a length of 20 feet, and is of 
nearly uniform black colour, except the middle of the under sur- 
