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LIST

OF THE

SPECIMENS OF CETACEA

IN THE

ZOOLOGICAL DEPARTMENT

OF.THE

BRITISH MUSEUM.

BY

WILLIAM HENRY FLOWER, LL.D., F.R.S.

LONDON:

PRINTED BY ORDER OF THE TRUSTEES.
1885.

PRINTED BY TAYLOR AND FRANCIS,

RED LION COURT, FLEET STREET.

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PREFACE

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Tue Collection of skeletons, skulls, and other portions of Cetacea in
the British Museum, at present the most complete in existence, was
brought together mainly in consequence of the zeal with which the
late Dr. Gray, Keeper of the Zoological Department, pursued the
study of this interesting, but formerly much neglected, group of
animals.

It was upon this collection that Dr. Gray’s numerous works on the
Cetacea, including those published by the Trustees of the Museum
in the form of Catalogues *, were based—-works which are indis-
pensable to all zoologists wishing to become acquainted with the
Order of Mammals to which they refer.

As, however, recent advances in knowledge have made great
modifications in the views which were held by Dr. Gray as to the
classification and nomenclature of the species, it seemed very de-
sirable that the Collection should be thoroughly re-examined, and
arranged and named in accordance with the ideas derived from the
fuller and more critical state of knowledge of the present time, while
retaining references to all the published descriptions and figures
of the specimens, and to the various names under which many of
them have appeared at successive periods of their history.

It will be observed that the principle adopted in determining the
number of species admitted into this List is the reverse of that of
Dr. Gray, and may possibly have erred in the opposite direction. As
species have not generally been recognized as such unless presenting
constant distinguishing characters capable of definition, it is pro-
bable that, in the imperfect state of knowledge of many forms, some
may have been grouped together which a fuller acquaintance with

* Catalogue of Cetacea, 1850. Catalogue of Seals and Whales, 1866. Sup-
plement to Catalogue of Seals and Whales, 1871.

iv PREFACE.

all parts of their structure, external and internal, will show to be
distinct. But in some cases, as in the genus Delphinus, Dr. Gray’s
distinctions, founded on size alone, have been allowed to stand pro-
visionally at least, in the absence of more information a8 to the
extent of variation which may be attained in groups of individuals
to which the term “ specific” may be legitimately applied.

The List contains very nearly all the well-established species of
the Order, the only notable deficiency being Rhachianectes glaucus, a
whalebone whale of the North Pacific. Many species are, however,
very imperfectly represented in the Collection, either by a single
specimen or by a skull or other still smaller fragment of its organiza-
tion. The largest of all known mammals, Balenoptera sibbaldii, is
represented only by the skeleton of a specimen scarcely more than half-
grown; oneof the most important forms, remarkable for the strange
modification of the mammalian type of structure which it exhibits,
and for the commercial interests involved in its capture, the Green-
land Right Whale (Balena mysticetus), by a skull in a very dilapi-
dated condition ; Berardius arnuxi, a large Ziphioid whale of the
South Seas, by a single tooth. Of nearly every species a larger
number of specimens is required to exhibit the extent of individual
variation, and the modifications due to age, sex, or locality.

It is hoped that the publication of this List, by showing the
deficiencies of the Collection, will aid in making it still more

complete.
W. H. FLOWER,
British Museum Director.
(Natural History),

May Ist, 1885.

SYSTEMATIC INDEX.

I. MYSTACOCETI.
I. BaLZNIDA.

‘ Page
1. Baleena.

1. mysticetus, Z........... 1

2. australis, Desm. ........ 2
2. Neobaleena.

1, marginata, Gray........ 4
3. Megaptera.

1. boops, Z. ..........005. 4
4. Balenoptera.

1. musculus, Z. .......... 5

2. sibbaldii, Gray ........ 6

8. borealis, Less. .......... 6

4, rostrata, Fabr........... 7

5. huttoni, Gray .......... 7

I. ODONTOCETI.
I, PHYSETERID.
i, PHYSETERINE.

1. Physeter.

1. macrocephalus, Z. ...... 8
2. Kogia. .

1. breviceps, Blainv. ...... 9

ii, ZIPHIINE.

3. Hyperoodon.

1. rostratus, Miiller ........ 9

2. planifrons, Flower ...... 10
4, Ziphius.

1. cavirostris, Cuv. ........ 10

2. chathamensis, Hector.... 10
5. Mesoplodon.

1. bidens, Sowerby ........ ll

2, australis, Flower ........ ll

3. layardi, Gray .......... Il

4. hectori, Gray .......... 12
6. Berardius.

1. arnuxii, Duvernoy ...... 12

Il, PLATANISTIDA,

i, PLATANISTINA

Page
1, Platanista.
1, gangetica, Lebeck ...... 12
ii. Innva.
2. Inia.
1. geoffrensis, Blainv. ...... 18
iii. PoNTOPORIINA.
38. Pontoporia.
1. blainvillii, Gervais...... 13
Il. DeELPHINIDA.
1. Monodon.
1. monoceros, Z. .......... 14
2. Delphinapterus.
J. leucas, Pallas .......... 14
3. Phoceena. ~
1. communis, Z. .......... 16
4, Cephalorhynchus.
1. heavisidii, Gray ........ 16
2. eutropia, Gray .......... 17
5. Orcella.
1. brevirostris, Owen ...... 17
2. fluminalis, Anders. ...... 17
6. Orca.
1, gladiator, Gray ........ 18

7. Pseudorca.
1. crassidens, Owen ........ 19

8. Globicephalus.
1. melas, Trail
2. macrorhynchus, Gray.... 21

9. Grampus.
1. griseus, Cuvter.......... 21

10. Feresia.
1, intermedia,

SYSTEMATIC INDEX,

Page

Grayewceies.

11. Lagenorhynchus.

Or Co bo

12. Delphinus.
1. delphis, Z.

2, janira, Gray............
3. pomeegra, Owen

4, capensis, G7

5. major, Gray... ... 60.668

18. Tursiops.
1, tursio, Fabr

- albirostris, Gray
. acutus, Gray
. electra, Gray
. fitzroyi, Waterhouse
. clanculus, Gray

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14. Prodelphinus.

1. obscurus, Gray...+++++-+ 28

2. euphrosyne, Gray ..---- 29

8. doris, Gray ...-.++ ere 29

4, attenuatus, Gray......-- 30

& alope, Gray ....+eee reese 31

6. microps, Gray .....++.- « 81

7. longirostris, Gray ...... 31
15. Steno.

1. rostratus, Cuv........... 31
16. Sotalia.

1, tucuxi, Gray .......... 32

2. plumbea, Dussum. ...... 32

8. gadamu, Owen.......... 83

4. lentiginosa, Owen........ 33

LIST

OF

CETACEA.

Suborder I. MYSTACOCETI.

Family I. BALASNIDA.

1. BALENA.
Balena, Linn. Syst. Nat, ed. 12, i. p. 105 (1766).

1. Balena mysticetus.
(Greenland Right Whale.)

Balena mysticetus, Linn. |. c.

a, Skull. (338 a.)

In Museum since the last century. Figured by Cuvier, Oss.
Foss. 2™° édit. v. pl. xxv. figs. 9, 10, & 11 (1823).

b. Left scapula. (338 e.)
Purchased.

c. Imperfect right tympanic bone. (338 h—48. 10.12. 27.)
Purchased, 1848.

(838 g—48. 10. 12. 26.)

d. Left tympanic bone.
Purchased, 1848.

From a different individual.
e. Pair of tympanic bones. ;
Lidth-de-Jeude Collection. Purchased, 1867.

f. Pair of tympanic bones. (338 7.)
One of these is figured by Gray (P. Z.S. 1864, p. 201, and

Cat. Seals and Whales, p. 86, fig. 5, 1866) as B. mysticetus, var.
B

2 BALHENIDE.

angulata. Type of B. angulata, Gray, Suppl. Cat. Seals and
Whales (1871), p. 39.

g. Pair of tympanic bones; very young. (79. 10. 1.1 & Be

Baffin’s Bay. Capt. Adams, 1879 [P.].

The locality from which they were obtamed proves that they

belong to this species. They present, much of the form per-
manently retained by B. australis.

h. Two blades of baleen. , (338 b & ¢.)
Greenland. Messrs. Smith and Simmonds [P.].
Figured Zool. Ereb. & Terr. pl. i. fig. 4 (1846).

a One blade of baleen. (338 d.)
Greenland.

2. Balena australis.
(Southern Right Whale.)

Balena australis, Desmoulins, Dict. Class. d’ Hist. Nat, ii. p. 161
(1822),

Under this name are provisionally included various forms which
have been specifically separated either according to locality or from
trifling structural peculiarities. Possibly some are distinct, but a
more thorough study, with more ample materials than are at present

available, will be necessary before their characters can be satisfac-
torily defined.

a. Articulated skeleton; young. (1588 a—73. 3. 3. 1.)
New Zealand. Dr. Haast, 1873 [C.].
Skull, cervical vertebre, and scapula figured, P. Z.S. 1873,

pp. 1385-140, under the name of Macleaytus australiensis*. The
skeleton closely resembles that of an animal taken in the Gulf of

Taranto, Feb. 1877, described and figured by Gascot, assigned
to B. biscayensis.

6. Left tympanic and periotic bones. (1469 ¢.)
South Africa. George Byham, Esq. [P.].
Mentioned, with the next, by Gray, Cat. S. & W. p. 93 (1866).

Very similar to the corresponding bones of the last specimen.

ce. Right and left tympanic and periotic bones.
(1469 a & b—45, 4.10. 5 & 6.)
H. H. Russell, Esq. [P.}.
d. Left tympanic bone. (76. 2. 16. 6.)

New Zealand. Dr. Hector, 18
This was labelled ‘‘ Black Whale, Hubalena Pe eae ws

_ * A genus and species founded upon a photograph of th s
(P.Z. 8 1864, p. 588). P geTaph of the cervical vertebra

+ Atti Reale Accad. Napoli, 1878. i

1, BALENA. 3

e. Cast of left tympanic and periotic bones.
Atlantic coast of N. America.
From type of B. cisarctica, Cope, P. Ac. Philad. 1865, p. 168.
This is probably the true B. biscayensis, if this is a distinct
species. Royal College of Surgeons, 1884 [P. ].

f. Left tympanic and periotic bone. (1469 d.)
: Dr. Mantell [P.].
Labelled by Dr. Gray ‘var. depressa?”; described in Cat.

8. & W. p. 93 (1866), as a variety.

g. Mutilated left tympanic bone. (1469 e—52. 1. 23. 9.)
Labelled by Dr. Gray “ Balena australis, var. depressa.”
Described (Joc. cit.) as indicating “an allied species or only a

variety.” It is not typical of B. australis, but is rather interme-
diate in character between the tympanic of that species and of
B. mysticetus. Purchased, 1852.

h. Cervical vertebre (united). (338 f—53. 1. 5. 2.)
Dredged up off Lyme Regis, Rev. H. Beecham, 1853 [P.].
Figured by Gray in Cat. 8. & W. 1866, p. 83, as “ Bulena

——”. Stated to be probably B. biscayensis (p. 84).

Attributed by Van Beneden to B. biscayensis, Ostéographie des
Cétacés, p. 109; Gray’s figure copied on pl. vii, fig. 7.

Type of Gray’s Macleayius britannicus, Ann. & Mag. N. H. 1870,
vi. pp. 198 & 204; Suppl. Cat. 8. & W. (1871) p. 46, where it
is stated “ this massive vertebra has no affinity with B. biscayensis,
and indicates the existence of a completely different new species
of Right Whales, which appears to be an inhabitant of our
seas.’

Subsequently figured by Gray under the name of “ Halibalena
britannica” (P. Z. 8. 1873, pp. 140, 141).

7. Bones of forearm. (1469 a.)
Cape of Good Hope.
j. Two blades of baleen. (1469 6, ¢.)

Messrs. Smith and Simmonds (P. Is
Described and figured, Voy. Ereb. & Terr. p. 48, pl. i. fig. 3.
“ South-Sea whalebone.”

k. Two blades of baleen. (1469 d, e.)

1. Epidermic excrescence from the median line of the fore part of
the head ; called by the whalers “ bonnet.” (64. 6. 1. 15.)

North Pacitic. E. W. H. Holdsworth, Esq., 1864 [P.].

See Gray, P. Z. 8. 1864, p. 170; also Cat. 8. &W. 1866, p. 95,

where it is figured.

m. Smaller specimen of the same. (64. 6. 1. 6.)
Sandwich Islands. E, W. H. Holdsworth, Esq. [P.].
See Cat. S. & W. 1866, p. 96.
7 B2

4 BALENIDE..

2. NEOBALENA. .

Neobalena, Gray, Suppl. Cat. S. § W. p. 89 (1871).
Caperea, Gray, P. ZS. 1864, p. 202*.

1. Neobalena marginata.

Balena marginata, Gray, Zool. Ereb. § Terr. p. 48 (1846).
Caperea antipodarum, Gray, P. Z. S. 1864, p. 202.
Neobalena marginata, Gray, Suppl. Cat. 83 W. p. 40 (1871).
a. Articulated skeleton, with the baleen. - (339 g—76. 2. 16. 1.)
New Zealand. Wellington Museum, 1876 [E.].
See Hector, Proc. N. Z. Inst. 1869, tab. 2 B. figs. 1-4 ; figure of
skull copied by Gray, Suppl. Cat. S. & W. 1871, p. 40.

b. Right tympanic bone. (1467 a—52. 5. 23. 1.)
Otago, New Zealand. Mr. Stuart, 1852 [P.].
Figured in P.Z.S. 1864, p. 203, and Cat. 8. & W. p. 101

(1866), under the name of Caperea antipodarum, a species founded
upon this bone and Dieffenbach’s description and figure of the
external characters of quite a different Whale (probably B.
australis). When the skeleton of the present species became
fully known, it was evident that the tympanic bone belonged to
the animal previously described, from the baleen alone, under the
name of B. marginata. :

c. Three blades of baleen. (839 a, 6, & ¢.)
Western Australia. Mr. Warwick [P.}.
Type of species. Described and figured, Zool. Ereb. & Terr.

1846, p. 48, pl.i. fig. 1. The hairy fringe on the inner side of the
blade has been stripped off.

d. Three blades of baleen. (339 d, e, & f.)
New Zealand. Purchased.

3. MEGAPTERA.
Megaptera, Gray, Zool. Ereb. & Terr. p. 16 (1846).

1. Megaptera boops.
(Humpback Whale.)

P Baleena boops, Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. 12, i. p. 106 (1766).

Balzna boops, Fabricius, Fauna Greenlandica, 1780, p. 36.

Balena longimana, Rudolphi, Mem. Ac. Berlin, 1829, p. 188.

Megaptera boops, Van Beneden and Gervais, Ostéographie des Cétacts
p. 120 (1869-80), and most modern authors. '

* Tt is somewhat difficult to say which of these names should h:
tao, ipo ins rr Sn ns toa ae ed
different animals, the external characters of one and the tympanic : 7
another. Neobalena was given when all the characters were w. ones 0

and has been consequently generally adopted, Caperea falling Fa Aaa

3. MucarTERA.—4. BALENOPTERA, 5

It is uncertain whether all the following specimens of Megaptera
should be referred to one species or to several. If'more than one,
their distinctive characters have not been as yet clearly defined.

a, Articulated skeleton; nearly adult. (792 6.)
Greenland. Professor Eschricht [Purchased ].
b. Skull with the baleen. (792 a.)
Greenland. Professor Eschricht [Purchased],

e. Skull; young.

d. Skull and portions of skeleton, including the cervical and dorsal
vertebrae, ribs and scapula; adult.
California. Received in exchange from Dr. Hector.
These were mixed, when they arrived, with the bones of several
other individuals; it is therefore not absolutely certain that they
all belong to the same animal.

e. Skull; young. (1468 d—76. 2. 15. 1.)
New Zealand. Wellington Museum, 1876 [E.].
Labelled by Dr. Gray “‘ Megaptera nove-zealandie.”

f. Right tympanic bone; mutilated. (52. 1. 23. 10.)
Purchased, 1852.

g. Left tympanic bone.
“Mr. Widdop.”

h. Right tympanic and periotic bones. (1468 «.)
Otago, New Zealand. Mr. Stuart [P.].
Type of M. nove-zealandie, Gray ; described and figured P. Z.8.

1864, p. 207, and Cat. S. & W. (1866) p. 128, fig. 20.

i. Right and left tympanic bones. (1468 6 & c—56. 4. 6. 1.)
New Zealand. — J. Dobson, Esq., 1856 [P.].

j. Foetus. In spirit. (46. 10. 27. 6.)
Greenland.

4, BALENOPTERA.

1, Balenoptera musculus.
(Common Rorqual, or Fin- Whale.)

Balena physalus and Balena musculus, Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. 12, i.
p. 106 (1766), .

Balena physalus, Fabricius, Fauna Greenlandica, p. 85 (1780).

Balenoptera rorqual, Lacépéde, Cétacés, pp. xxxvii & 126 (1804).

Balena antiquorum, Fischer, Syn. Mamm. p. 525 (1829).

Balenoptera musculus (Linn.), Companyo, Mém. descrip. de la
Baleine échouée prés de St.-Cyprien, p. 23 (1830) ;. Van Beneden

,.and Gervais, Ostéog. Cétacés, p. 167 (1869-80), and most modern
authors.

Balenoptera physalus (Linn.), Gray, Zool. Ereb. & Terr, p. 18
1846).

Pies antiquorum, Gray, P. Z. S. 1847, p. 90.

6 BALENID&.

a, Articulated skeleton ; adult male. (793 e—82. 6. 14. 1.)

Moray Firth, Scotland. ‘ Purchased, 1882.

It measures, in a straight line, 68 feet in length. The tail-

flukes and dorsal fin are preserved, and attached to the pelvie
bones are the very rudimentary nodular femurs.

b. Articulated skeleton; adult. (793 c—48. 10. 12. 20.)
Plymouth, 1831. Purchased, 1848.
Less perfect than the last. This skeleton was formerly ex-

hibited in various parts of the country, moving from town to
town in travelling vans.

ce. Articulated skeleton; young. (790 c¢.)
This specimen is named in the ‘ Catalogue of the Bones of Mam-
malia’ (1862), p. 150, Physalus (Rorqualus) boops. Afterwards
it became type of the genus and species, Benedenia knowxii, Gray,
P. Z. 8.1864, p. 212; Cat.S. & W. 1866, p. 135 (skull and some
cervical vertebra figured).
From an animal taken on the coast of Wales, and towed into
Liverpool in 1846, Purchased.

d. Cranium; adult.

e. Cervical and some dorsal vertebra, sternum, hyoid, and right
and left tympanics. (1466 a—56. 11. 7. 2.)
Orkney Islands. From Mr. Heddle, 1856.
From the specimen described by Heddle, P. Z. S. 1856, p. 187,

as Physalus duguidi ; see also Cat. 8. & W. (1866) p. 158.

f. Right tympanic, periotic, and complete mastoid apophysis, with
ossicula auditus.

2. Balenoptera sibbaldii.
(Sibbald’s Rorqual.)
Physalus (Rorqualus) sibbaldii, Gray, P. Z. S. 1847, p. 92.
a. Articulated skeleton ; young. (1465 a—65. 8. 23. 1.)
Lidth-de-Jeude Collection. Purchased, 1867.
Type of Physalus latirostris, Flower (P. Z. 8. 1865, p. 28).
i)

Cuvierius latirosiris, Gray, Cat. S. & W. p. 165.
Cuwierius sibbaldii, Gray, ibid. p. 380.

3. Balenoptera borealis,
(Rudolphi’s Rorqual.)

Baleenoptera borealis, Less. Hist. Nat. Cétacés, p. 3
B. laticeps, Gray, Zool. Ereb. & Terr. p. 30 (igiey ine)
a. Cast of right tympanic bone. (84. 4, 26,1 )
; Royal College of Surgeons [E.;
55 : ‘ geons [E.].
From the specimen caught in the River ©
P, Z. 8. 1883, p, 513). ce oe

4. BALENOPTERA. 7

4. Balenoptera rostrata.
(Lesser. Rorqual, or Pike Whale.)

Baleena rostrata, Fabricius, Fauna Greenl. p. 40 (1780).

. Stuffed specimen ; young female. (71. 3. 5. 1.)
Weymouth. Purchased, 1871.
The external characters and anatomy of this individual are

described by Mr. Perrin, P. Z. 8. 1870, p. 805.

. Stuffed specimen and baleen-plates ; young. (46. 8. 28. 15.)
River Thames, at Deptford. Purchased, 1846.
The baleen figured in Zool. Ereb. & Terr. pl. i. fig. 3.

&

~

c. Stuffed specimen ; very young.
Greenland.
d. Articulated skeleton. (341 a—46. 7. 11. 1.)
South Greenland. Purchased, 1846.
e. Right and left tympanic bones. (841 ¢ & d.)

Old Collection.

5. Balenoptera huttoni.
(Hutton’s Rorqual.)

Baleenoptera huttoni, Gray, Ann. § Mag. N. H. 1874, xiii. pp. 316
& 450, pls. xvi., xviii.

a. Articulated skeleton, with baleen. (74. 4, 13. 2.)
Otago Head, New Zealand, Oct.1873. Prof. Hutton, 1874(E.].
Type of the species, which is closely allied to, if not identical

with, the last.

Of uncertain Species.

a. Occipital region of the cranium; greater part of left maxilla,
some vertebre (including second and third cervical ossified
together) and ribs of a large Balenoptera allied to, if not
identical with, B. musculus. (14. 46 a.

Formosa. R. Swinhoe, Esq. [C.].

Types of B. swinhoii, Gray, Ann. & Mag. N. H. (ser. 3) xvi.
p. 148, P. Z. 8. 1865, p. 725 (figures); and Swinhoia chinensis,
Gray, Suppl. Cat. 8. & W. p. 57 (1871).

GB. Left tympanic bone. (79. 8. 21. 8.)

Cockle Cove, Straits of Magellan, February 1879 (* Alert’ Expe-'

dition). Admiralty [P.].
Collected by Dr. R. W. Coppinger.

y. Mutilated left tympanic bone. (80. 7. 28. 19.)

3. Right tympanic bone. (76. 2. 16. 17.)

Port Underwood, Cook Strait, New Zealand.
Wellington Museum [E.].
Marked “ Sulphur-bottom.”

8 PHYSETERID A.

Suborder ODONTOCETI.

Family I. PHYSETERID&.

Subfamily PHYSETERIN 2.

1. PHYSETER.
Physeter, Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. 12, i. p. 107 (1766).

, 1, Physeter macrocephalus.
(Cachalot, or Sperm Whale.)
Physeter macrocephalus, Linn. Toc. cit. (1766).
a, Articulated skeleton ; adult male*. ~ (342 h—65. 7. 3. 1.)
Sandside Bay, near Thurso, Caithness, July 1863.
Capt. Macdonald, R.E. [P.].
Described (with others) in the Memoir on the Osteology of
the Sperm Whale, by Flower, in Trans. Z. 8. vol. vi. The length
of the skeleton, as articulated, is 50 feet 14 inch in a straight
line, but the three terminal vertebra are wanting.

b. Cranium of adult male, and two mandibles without teeth.
(342 a.)
“ North Sea.” In Museum since the last century.
Figured in Cuvier’s Oss. Foss. v. pt. 1, pl. xxiv. figs. 1-5.
c. Lower jaw with the teeth complete. (342 9.)
South Sea, between Cape Howe and New Zealand.
Louis Nathan, Esq., 1851 [P.].
Exhibited at the Great Exhibition of 1851.
d. Lower jaw, with teeth of small size. (841 j—67. 2. 24. 8.)
Probably of a female or young male, Purchased, 1867.
e. Lower jaw of still smaller size, without teeth.
(842 c—45, 12. 29, 4.)
Purchased, 1848.
f. Lower jaw without teeth, remarkably curved.
(842 k—48, 9. 24. 6.)

: Purchased, 1848.
Described and figured by Dr. Murie, P. Z. 8. 1865, p. 390.

g- Left ramus of lower jaw without teeth; the symphysial portion
greatly curved. (842 7.)

h. Teeth, various,
i

* In Central Hall.

2. xoG1a.—3. HYPEROODON. 9

2. KOGIA.,

Kogia, Gray, Zool. Ered. & Terr. p. 22 (1846).
7 as Wall, Hist. and Descrip. New Sperm Whale, Sydney,

1. Kogia breviceps.
(Short-headed Cachalot.)
Physeter breviceps, Blainville, Ann. Anat. Phys. ii. p. 337 (1888).

a. Articulated skeleton. (1474 6—73.-6. 25. 1.)
New South Wales. Mr. Krefft, 1873 [Purchased ].

Labelled by Dr. Gray Kogia macleayii (see Ann. & Mag. N. H.
vol. xii. 1873, p. 184).

b. Skeleton. (1474 c—73. 6. 25. 2.)
New South Wales. Mr. Krefft, 1873 [Purchased].
c. Cranium ; young female. (1474 c—73. 6. 25. 2.)
Madras. Sir Walter Elliott, K.C.S.L, 1866 (C. & P.].

Type of Physeter (Euphysetes) simus, Owen, Trans. Z. 8. vi.
pls. 10-14.

Perhaps belonging to a smaller species.

Subfamily ZIPHIINA.

3. HYPEROODON.

Hyperoodon, Lacépéede, Hist. Nat. des Cétacés; Tab. des Ordres §c.
p. xliv (1804).

1. Hyperoodon rostratus.
(Bottlenose Whale.)

Balzena rostrata, O. F. Miiller, Zool. Dan. Prod. p. 7 (1776); Chem-
niz, Beschaft. Ges. Naturf. Berlin, iv. p. 1883 (1779).

Delphinus bidentatus and butskopf, Bonnaterre, Cétologie, Tab. Trois
Regnes Nature, p. 25 (1789).

Delphinus diodon, Lacép. Hist. Nat. Cétacés, p. 309 (1804).

Hyperoodon butskopf, 2d, wid. p. 319; Gray, Cat. 8. § W. p. 330

(1866).
a. Articulated skeleton ; adult female. (1378 a—60. 12. 2. 2.)
Whitstable, Kent. Purchased.

See P. Z. 8. 1860, p. 422. The animal was figured in the
«Tilustrated News’ for November 18, 1860, from a drawing by
the Rev. G. Beardsworth. Its stomach is said to have contained
more than half a bushel of cuttlefish-beaks,

10 PHYSETERIDE.

6. Imperfect skull, and portion of skeleton ; very young.
‘ ; (1878 56—60. 12. 2. 3.)

Taken with the last. Purchased,

c. Imperfect cranium, and considerable portion of skeleton; very
old male.

Orkneys. Purchased.

Type of Hyperoodon latifrons, Gray, Zool. Ereb. & Terr. pl. iv. ;
and of Lagenocetus latifrons, Gray, P. Z.S. 1863, p. 200; Cat.
S. & W. p. 336, 1866 (cervical vertebre figured).

The maxillary crests are immensely developed.

d. Skeleton ; female or young male; imperfect. (1878 ¢.)

2. Hyperoodon planifrons.
(Southern Bottlenose Whale.)
H. planifrons, Flower, P. Z. S, 1882, p. 392.

a, Waterworn and mutilated cranium. (1814 a—82. 3. 24. 1.):
Lewis Island, Dampier Archipelago, Australia, Purchased.
Type of species, P. Z. 8. 1882, p. 392.

4, ZIPHIUS.
Ziphius, Cuvier, Ossemens Fossiles, 2nd ed. v. p. 852 (1828).

1. Ziphius cavirostris.

Ziphius cavirostris, Cuvier, loc. cit.

a. Imperfect skeleton. (1517 }—78. 10. 25. 1.)
Cape of Good Hope. Purchased.
6, Skull; adult. (1517 a—69. 4. 5. 1.)
Cape of Good Hope. Trustees of the

South-African Museum, 1869 [P.].
Type of Petrorhynchus capensis, Gray, P. Z. 8. 1865, p. 528.
Figured under this name in-Cat. 8. & W. (1866), pp. 344, 345.
Described by Owen (British Crag Cetacea, Paleontogr. Soe.
1870), and figured in Van Beneden and Gervais, Ostéographie des
‘Cétacés, pl. xxi. fig. 10. Closely resembles the specimen described
in 1863 by Van Beneden as Ziphius indicus (Mém. Acad. Roy.
de Belgique, 8vo, xvi.).

2. Ziphius chathamensis.
Epiodon chathamiensis, Hector, Tr. N. Z. Inst. v. p. 164 (1873),
The specific distinction between this and the last is not well
established.

a. Articulated skeleton.
New Zealand. Purchased through Dr. von Haast.
The teeth are small and pointed, thus differing from the
following. This may be a sexual character.

5, MESOPLODON. 11

b. Two teeth of old specimens ; apparently not a pair.
(76. 2. 16. 11.)
Chatham Island. Colonial Museum, Wellington [E.}.
They have massive roots and much-worn crowns. One of them
is figured in Trans. N. Z. Inst. v. p. 170, figs. a—0, in the original
description of the species,

5. MESQPLODON.
Mesoplodon, Gervais, Ann. Sc. Nat. 8° sér. xiv. p. 16 (1850).

1. Mesoplodon bidens.
(Sowerby’s Whale.)

Physeter bidens, Sowerby, Brit. Miscell. p. 1 (1804).
Delphinus (Heterodon) sowerbiensis, Dlates, Nouv, Dict. d Hist.
Nat. ix. p. 177 (1817).

a. Cast of skull with mutilated occiput.
Coast of Elgin, Scotland.
Sir Henry W. D. Acland, K.C.B. [P.].
From the type-specimen, taken off the coast of Elgin in 1800,

now in the museum of the University of Oxford. :

b. Cast of cranium ; young female.

From the original, stranded at Ostend in 1835, and now in
the Brussels Museum ; described by Dumortier (Mém. Acad. Roy.
Bruxelles, xii. 1839) under the name of Delphinorhynchus micro-
pterus, and subsequently by Van Beneden (Mém. Acad. Belg.
8vo, xvi. 1863).

2. Mesoplodon australis.
Mesoplodon australis, Flower, Trans, Zool. Soc. x. p. 419.

a. Articulated skeleton ; adult. (1677 a—76. 2. 16. 2.)
Lyall Bay, New Zealand. Wellington Museum [E.].
Type of species. Prepared from a specimen cast ashore in Lyall

Bay, and described by Dr. Hector in Tr. N. Z. Inst. vii. p. 262
(1875). The skeleton figured and described in Trans. Z. 8. vol. x.

3. Mesoplodon layardi.

Ziphius layardii, Gray, P. Z. 8. 1865, p. 358; Cat. 8. & W. p. 868.
Dolichodon layardii, Gray, Supp. Cat. S. & W. p. 101 (1871).

a. Skull. (69. 4. 5. 2.)

Cape of Good Hope. Trustees of the

South-African Museum, 1869 [P.].

Figured by Owen in Brit. Crag Cetacea (Paleontogr. Soc.
1870).

12 PHYSETERID Z.—PLATANISTIDE.

4. Mesoplodon hectori.

Berardius hectori, Gray, Ann, §& Mag. N. H. (ser. 4) viii. p. 117
1871).
MSopoton Iknoxi, Hector, Trans, N. Z. Inst. v. p. 167 (1878).
a. Skull; young. (1677 6—76. 2. 16. 3.)
Titai Bay, Cook Strait, New Zealand, January 1866.
Colonial Museum, Wellington [E.].
Type of species.
Skull figured by Hector, Trans. N. Z. Inst. iii, (1870) pls. xiv.
& xv., and by Flower, Trans. Z. 8. x. pls. lxxi, & lxxii.

Of uncertain Species.

a. Waterworn terminal fragment of the rostrum of a Mesoplodon.

New Zealand. Dr. Hector, 1876.
B. Tooth of a Mesoplodon. (76. 2. 16. 13.)
Chatham Island. From the Colonial Museum,

Wellington, New Zealand.

6. BERARDIUS.

eee Duvernoy, Ann. Sci. Nat, 3° sér. Zoologie, xv. p. 41
( . ;

1. Berardius arnuxii.
Berardius arnuxii, Duvernoy, loc. cit. p. 52.

a. A tooth. (76. 2. 16, 14.)
Chatham Island. From the Colonial Museum,
Wellington, New Zealand.

Family II. PLATANISTID.

Subfamily PLATANISTINA.

1. PLATANISTA.
Platanista, Wagler, Nat. Syst. Amph. &c. p. 35 (1880),

1. Platanista gangetica.

Delphinus gangeticus, Lebeck, Neue Schrift. Ges. nat. Fr fi
iii. p. 280 (1801), : ift. Ges. nat, Freunde Berl.

a. Stuffed specimen ; young.

ny

1. PLATANISTA.—8. PONTOPORIA. 13

b. Articulated skeleton ; young male. (844 c—74. 6. 1.1.)
River Hughli, near the Botanical Gardens, Dec. 25, 1865.
Received through Dr. J. Anderson.

ce. Skull; adult. (344 5—43, 8. 18. 5.)

Gibson Rowe, Esq., 1843 (P.].

d. Skull; young. \ (844 a.)
From the Ganges.

é. Skeleton (imperfect); young. (1646 a—74. 4. 13. 4.)

From the Indus. Sir W. Merewether, K.C.S.I., 1874 [P.].

f. Cast of the dentary portion of the upper and lower jaws, with

the teeth, of an aged animal. (84. 5. 3. 1.)

Royal College of Surgeons of England, 1884 [P.].

From the specimen, now in the Museum of the Royal College

of Surgeons, described and figured by Dr. Roxburgh, Asiatic
Researches, vii. p. 170 (1801).

g. Articulated skeleton ; immature. (84. 3. 29. 1.)
Calcutta. R. A. Fayrer, Esq., 1884 (P.]

Subfamily INIINZA.

' 2. INIA.
Inia, D’ Orbigny, N. Ann. Mus. Paris, iii. p. 31 (1834).

1. Inia geoffrensis.
Inia geoffrensis, Blainville, N. Dict. d’ Hist. Nat. ix. p. 151 (1817).
a, Articulated skeleton; young. (1169 c—66. 6. 3. 1.)
Upper Amazon, above Nauta, Peru.

Mr. E. Bartlett. Purchased, 1866.
Described and figured in Trans. Z. 8. vol. vi. pls. 25, 26, & 27.

6. Skull. (1169 a—s5é. 8. 2. 1.)
Ega, Upper Amazon. Bates Collection. Purchased, 1856.
e. Skull. : (1169 6.)
Ega, Upper Amazon. Bates Collection. Purchased.

Subfamily PONTOPORIIN &.
3. PONTOPORIA.
Pontoporia, Gray, Zoot. Ereb. § Terr. p. 46 (1846).

1. Pontoporia blainvillii.
Delphinus blainvillei, Gervais, Bull. Soc. Philom. Parts, 1844, p. 39.

14 DELPHINIDE.

a. Articulated skeleton ; young male. (84. 9. 12. 3.)
Rio Grande. Dr. H. von Ihring. Purchased, 1884.
6. Skull. (1487 a—66. 12. 3. 1.)
Rio de la Plata. Dr. H. Burmeister [P.].

Described and figured in Trans. Z. 8. vol. vi. pl. xxviii.

Family III. DELPHINIDA.

1. MONODON.
Monodon, Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. 12, i. p. 105 (1766).

1. Monodon monoceros.
(Narwhal.)

Monodon monoceros, Linneus, loc. cit.

a. Articulated skeleton of male. (369 c.)
b. Articulated skeleton of female.
Greenland. Purchased, 1885.
e, Skull of male with both tusks developed.
Greenland. Purchased, 1885,
d. Tusk of malo.
e. Tusk of male.
f. Aborted rudimentary tusk. ; (369 d.)
Davis Strait. Robert Brown, Esq. [P.}.
g. Aborted rudimentary tusk. (55. 3. 11. 38.)

Purchased, 1855.

2. DELPHINAPTERUS.

Delphinapterus, Lacépéde, Hist. Nat. Cétacés, p. xli (1804),
Beluga, Gray, Spic. Zool. i. p. 2 (1828).

1. Delphinapterus leucas.
(Beluga, or White Whale.)

Delphinus leucas, Pallas, Reise $c. iii. p. 85 (1776).

Baleena albicans, O. F. Miiller, Zool. Danica Prodr. p-7 (1776)

Delphinapterus he a, Lacépéde, Hist. Nat. Cétacés, p. 248 (1804)

Beluga catodon (Physeter catodon, Linn.), Gray, Zo ;
Terr. p. 29 (1846). : ), Gray, Zool. Ereb. §

a. Articulated skeleton.
Greenland. (367 a.)

‘

2. DELPHINAPTERUS.—3. PHOCHINA. 15

’. Skull. | (367 6.)
Greenland.

ec. Cranium (without teeth). (367 c.)

Eschscholtz Bay, Behrings Straits. Capt. Kellett, R.N.,

and Lieut. Wood, R.N. [P.].

d. Skeleton (disarticulated) ; young. (367 e.)

e. Skull ; young. (367 d.)

Greenland, Purchased.

f. Skull; young. (364 a.)

Captain P. P. King, R.N. [P.].
Said to have been brought from the coast of Australia.
Of corresponding age to, and closely resembling, the last.
Described by Dr. Gray in Ann. Philos. 1827, p. 375, as
Delphinus (Delphinapterus) kingii.
Figured in Zool. Ereb. & Terr. p. 30, pl. vii., under the name of
Beluga kingii.

3. PHOCAINA.
Phoceena, Cuvier, Régne Animal, i. p. 279 (1817).

1. Phocena communis.
(Common Porpoise.)

Delphinus phoceena, Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. 12, i. p. 108 ( 1766).
Phoceena communis, Lesson, Man, Mammal, p. 418 (1827).

a. Stuffed specimen.
English coast.

b. Stuffed specimen.
English coast.

ce. Coloured cast. (83. 12, 24. 9.)
United States ; Atlantic coast.
U. 8. Government, 1883 [P.].
From the United States National Museum ; exhibited in the
International Fisheries Exhibition (London), 1883.

d, Coloured cast of head; female. (83. 12. 24. 10.)
Cape May, New Jersey (C. Le Roy Wheeler).
‘ U.S. Government, 1883 [P.].
From the United States National Museum.
Labelled Phocceena lineata, Cope.

e. Natural skeleton; adult. (3865 d.)
Polperro, Cornwall.

16 DELPHINIDZ.

f. Skeleton ; young. (46. 12. 15. 6.)
Tndlend i Purchased, 1846.
g- Skeleton ; young. (365 f—65. 12. 8. 43.)
English coast. Purchased, 1865.

Type of P. tuberculifera, Gray, P. Z. 8. 1865, p. 320. :

This and the next are from specimens taken on the English
coast and kept for a short time alive in the Zoological Society’s
Gardens.

The skin is preserved in spirit.

A. Skeleton, without skull; young. (365 e—65. 10. 9. 23.)
Purchased, 1865.

2. Skull. (365 a.)
From Dr. Mantell’s Collection.

j. Skull. (365 g—67. 4. 12. 204.)
Holland. Lidth-de-Jeude Collection. Purchased, 1867.

k. Cranium.

t. Skull. (365 i—73. 6. 3. 45.)
N. America (Atlantic coast).
From the Smithsonian Institution.

m, Skull. (365 h—68. 3. 19. 4.)
Vancouver’s Island (Dr. R. Brown). __ Purchased, 1863.
This is of larger size than any of the European specimens, and

may be of a distinct species.

4, CEPHALORHYNCHUS.
Cephalorhynchus, Gray, Cat. Cetacea B. M. p. 106 (1850).

1. Cephalorhynchus heavisidii.
Delphinus heavisidii, Gray, Spic. Zool. p, 2 (1828).

a. Stuffed specimen and skull.
Cape of Good Hope (Capt. Heaviside),
Royal College of Surgeons of England [E.1.

Type of species. ;

Described and figured by Gray (oc. cet.) under the name of
Delphinus heavisidit.

Formerly in the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of
England.

The skull was removed from the skin in 1884, and found to
agree with those of the skeletons assigned to C. heavisidii in the
Museums of Leyden, Paris, and Oxford.

5. oRcELLA.—6. orca. 17

2. Cephalorhynchus (?) eutropia.
_ As this species is known by the skull alone, it can be only pro-
visionally assigned to the genus Cephalorhynchus.

Delphinus eutropia, Gray, P, Z. 8. 1849, p. 1.
Eutropia dickiei, Gray, P. Z. 8, 1866, p. Bi.

a. Skull. | (396 a—49. 5. 25. 2.)
Chili. Dr. Dickie’s Collection. Purchased, 1849.
Type of species.

Figured in Zool. Ereb. & Terr. (supplementary plate xxxiv.).

6, Skull. (396 bB—81. 8. 17. 1.)
Chili. T. Edmunds, Esq., 1881 [P.].

5. ORCELLA.

Oreaella, Gray, Cat. 8. & W. p. 285 (1866).
Orcella, J, Anderson, P. Z, 8. 1871, p. 142,

1. Orcella brevirostris.
Phocena brevirostris, Owen, Trans. Z. S. vi. p. 24, pl. ix.

a, Stuffed specimen. (83. 11. 20. 2.)
Singapore. Secretary of State for India [P.].
Malay name “ Lomba-lomba.” Exhibited at the International

Fisheries Exhibition, London, 1883.

6. Skull. (1454 a.)
Harbour of Vizagapatam. Sir Walter Elliot, K.C.8.1. [P.].
Type of species. Figured by Owen, Tr. Z.S. vol. vi. pl. ix.; .

also in Gray’s Cat. 8. & W. (1866) p. 286.

2. Orcella fluminalis.
(Irawaddy Dolphin.)
Orcella fluminalis, Anderson, P. Z, S. 1871, p. 148.

a. Articulated skeleton. (1454 6—77.12. 10. 17.)
River Irawaddy. Dr. J. Anderson. Purchased, 1877.

6. ORCA.
Orca, Gray, Zool. Ereb. § Terr. p. 83 (1846).

The specific determination and geographical distribution of the
animals of this genus present many difficulties. In the absence of
distinctive osteological characters, all the specimens in the Museum
are provisionally included under the name of the best known species.

c

18 DELPHINID 2.

1. Orca gladiator.
(Killer or Grampus.)

Delphinus orca, Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. 12, i. p. 108 (1766).
Delhiane orca and D. gladiator, Bonnaterre, Cét. pp. 22 & 23 (1789).
Orca gladiator, Gray, Zool. Ereb. § Terr. p. 33 (1846).

a. Skull and imperfect skeleton. (361 6—46. 8. 7. 3.)
Weymouth. R. Pearce, Esq., 1846 [P.].
Skull figured in P. Z. 8. 1870, pp. 72 & 74, as Orca stenorhyncha,

Gray, of which it and the next are the types. The figures re-
peated in Suppl. Cat. 8. & W. p. 90, figs. 7 & 9 (1871).

6. Skull. (361 ¢.)
English coast*. Purchased.
Co-type of O. stenorhyncha, Gray, P. Z. 8. 1870, p. 71 (not

figured).

c. Skull | (361 d.)

Purchased.

. 0. gladiator of Cat. Bones Mamm. p. 155 (1861); not men-

tioned in any of the subsequent Catalogues, nor in P. Z. 8. 1870.
Labelled 0. stenorhyncha.

d, Skull. (361 a.)
Coast of Essex.
Type of Orca latirostris, Gray, P. Z, 8. 1870, p. 76, and Suppl.
Cat. §. & W. (1871) p. 91.

e. Skull.
Seychelle Islands. Swinburne Ward, Esq., 1873 [P.}.
Figured in P. Z. 8. 1870, p. 75, as O. capensis, Gray (not
O. capensis, Gray, of the Zool. Ereb. & Terr. 1846) ; also in Suppl.
Cat. 8. & W. p. 90, figs. 8 & 10 (1871).

f. Skull. (1165 8.)
Cape of Good Hope. : Mr. Viney.
Orca capensis, Gray, P. Z. 8. 1870, p. 75; Suppl. Cat. 8. & W.

p. 90 (1871).

g. Skull.
North Pacific (Capt. Delville, R.N.).
From the Zoological Society’s Museum.
Described and figured, p. 34, pl. ix., in Zool. Ereb, & Terr.,
1846, as one of the types of Orca capensis, Gray.
Described under the name of Ophysia pacifica, Gray, P. Z. 8.
1870, p. 76, and Suppl. Cat. S. & W. p. 93.

* So stated in P. Z. 8. 1870, but not in the previous M
(Cat. Bones Mam. 1862, p. 155; Oat. 8. & W. (1966) p. 279). Oaalceues

7. PSEUDORCA.—8, GLOBICEPHALUS, 19

7. PSEUDORCA.
Pseudorea, Reinhardt, Overs. Dan. Selsk. Forh. 1862, p. 161.

1. Pseudorca crassidens.

Phoceona crassidens, Owen, Brit. Foss. Mamm. p. 516 (1846).
Pseudorea crassidens, Reinhardt, loc. cit.
Orca meridionalis, Flower, P, Z. 8. 1864, p. 420*,

a. Articulated skeleton. (1506 a.)
Adventure Bay, Tasmania. Purchased, 1866.
One of a herd stranded together in Adventure Bay, the ske-

letons of four of which were prepared by direction of Mr. W. L.
Crowther. Of the others, two are in the Museum of the Royal
College of Surgeons, and one in that of Cambridge University.

8. GLOBICEPHALUS.

Globicephala, Lesson, N. Tab. du Régne Animal, Mamm. p- 200 (1842),

Globiocephalus, Gray, Zool. Ereb. § Terr. p. 32 (1846).

Giekinsphialan Van Beneden & Gervais, Ostéogr. Cétacés, p. 554.

Globiceps, Flower, P.Z. 8. 1888, p. 508, preoccupied (see P. Z S.
1884, p. 418).

1. Globicephalus melas.
(Pilot-whale, Ca’ing Whale, or Round-headed Whale.)

Delphinus melas, Trail, Nicholson's Journ. xxii. p. 81 (1809).

Delphinus globiceps, Cuvier, Ann, Mus. xix. p. 14 (1812).

Gisbiessohalus svineval (Lacép.), Gray, Zool. Ereb. § Terr. p. 32
(1846).

A. Specimens from the Northern Hemisphere.

a, Stuffed specimen ; young (seven feet in length). (44. 3. 26. 1.)
English coast. Purchased, 1844,

6. Coloured cast of head ; adult. (83, 12. 24. 3.)
South Dennis, Mass., U.S.A. U.S. Government, 1883 [P.].
From the U. 8. National Museum.

c. Coloured cast of head; young. (83. 12. 24. 4.)
South Dennis, Mass., U.S.A. U.S. Government, 1883 [P.].
The margins of the lips are represented as being white, an

unusual coloration in this species.

d, Articulated skeleton. (363 h—53. 8. 22. 1.)
Coast of Ireland. ’ P. C. Brabazon, Esq. [P.].

. Skeleton ; female. (363 i—68. 1. 30. 1.)

: Firth of Forth, April 1867. Purchased, 1868.

The animal from which this was prepared contained a feetus,

* See Oat. Osteol. and Dentition of Vertebrated Animals, in Mus. Roy. Coll.
Surgeons of England, Part II. p. 578 (1884). 5
Cc

20 : DELPHINIDS.
which is preserved in the spirit collection. Tt was one of a large
number taken together at the same time and place (see Murie,
Tr. Z. 8. viii. p. 235).

f. Skeleton ; young. (363 j—68. 1. 30. 2.)
Firth of Forth, April 1867. Purchased, 1868.
From an animal taken with the last.

g. Skull ; young. (363 k—68. 1. 30. 3.)
Firth of Forth, April 1867. Purchased, 1868.
From another of the same herd as the last two.

h. Skull; adult. (363 a—44. 12. 3. 2.)
Orkneys. Professor Traill, 1844 [P.].

i. Skull. (363 d.)

j. Cranium. (863 e—53. 10. 2. 3. 2.)

River Thames. Dredged from the bed of the river.
Purchased, 1853.

k. Cranium. (58. 11. 10. 1.)
Mouth of the Thames. Purchased, 1858.
1. Waterworn imperfect cranium. (1313 a—éd. 1. 5. 1.)
Bridport. Rev. H. Beecham, 1853 [P.].

Type of Globiocephalus incrassatus, Gray, P.Z.S. 1861, p. 309.
Afterwards type of the genus Spherocephalus, Gray, P. Z. 8.
1864, p. 244; Cat. 8. & W. p. 323 (1866).

m. Lower jaw. (363 e—52. 10. 5. 4.)
n. Lower jaw. (363 b—44, 10. 5. 4.)
o. Lower jaw. (363 f—50. 4. 3. 7.)

It has only 7-8 teeth, and may belong to G. macrorhynchus.

B. Specimens from the Southern Hemisphere *.

p. Articulated skeleton of male. (1678 a—76. 2. 15. 2.)
New Zealand. : Colonial Museum,
Wellington, New Zealand, 1876 [K.}.

The lateral parts of the cranium have been cut away in
cleaning.

q. Skeleton ; female. (1678 6—76. 2. 15. 3.)
New Zealand. : Colonial Museum,
Wellington, New Zealand, 1876 [E.].

* No differences of specific value, either in external or osteological ch
have aed been indicated between ‘these and the Northern ersten. Until
such differences can be shown, they must be included under the same specific

ie G. macrorhynchus, to which they have been referred, is a distinct
‘orm.

8. GLOBICEPHALUS.—9, GRAMPUS. 21

rv. Imperfect skeleton. (363 6—76, 1. 28. 80.)
Falkland Islands. (Transit-of-Venus Expedition.)
Royal Society, 1876 [P.]}.

8. Anterior part of cranium and lower jaw.
(363 g—60. 11. 29. 66.)
South Seas. Dr. Milligan, 1860 [P.].

2. Globicephalus macrorhynchus.
Globiocephalus macrorhynchus, Gray, Zool. Ereb. & Terr. p. 88 (1846).
a. Stuffed specimen of young, and skull taken from the same.
Cape of Good Hope. From Sir Andrew Smith, 1853.
The skull is distinguished from that of G. mélas by the pre-
maxille expanding in the anterior half of the rostrum so as
completely to cover the maxilla. The teeth are fewer and stouter.

9. GRAMPUS.
Grampus, Gray, Zool. Ereb. §& Terr. p. 80 (1846).

1. Grampus griseus.
Delphinus griseus, Cuvier, Ann. Mus, xix. p. 14 (1812).
Grampus griseus, Gray, Spicilegia Zoologica, p. 2 (1828).
Grampus cuvieri, Gray, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. xvii. p. 85 (1846) ;
Cat. Cetacea Brit. Mus. (1850), p. 88. ;

a. Stuffed specimen ; young female. (71. 3. 5. 2.)
English Channel, March 1870. Purchased, 1871.
Described and figured in Tr. Z.§. viii. p. 1 (1871), pl. i. :

b. Articulated skeleton of the same individual.
(1573 6—72. 1. 11. 2.)

Purchased.
ce. Articulated skeleton ; adult female. (1573 a—72. 1.11. 1.)
English Channel. Purchased, 1872.

‘ Prepared from an animal taken, February 28, 1870, near the
Eddystone Lighthouse. External characters and skeleton described
and figured in Tr. Z. 8. viii. p. 1 (1871), pls. 1. & ii.

d. Skull. (364 a—44. 11. 16. 3.)
Isle of Wight. Rey. C. Bury, 1844 [P.].

ium. (364 ¢.)
Saleen Purchased.
. (1626 B—69. 4. 5. 3)

f uae of Good Hope. Trustees of the

South-African Museum, 1869 [P.].
Described in Cat. Seals and Whales (1866) p. 299, under the
name of G. richardsonit.

22 DELPHINID At.

(1626 a.)

Received from the Royal Naval Hospital, Haslar.

Type of Grampus richardsonii, Gray, Cat. Cetacea Brit. Mus.
p- 85 (1850).

g- Lower jaw.

h. Coloured cast of head ; adult. (83. 12. 24. 1.)
Cape Cod, Mass., U.S.A. U.S. Government [P.].
From the U.§. National Museum (No. 12940), 1883.

t. Coloured cast of head; young. (83, 12. 24, 2.)
Cape Cod, Mass., U.S.A. U.S. Government [P.].

From the U. 8. National Museum, 1883.

10. FERESIA.
Feresia, Gray, P. Z. 8. 1870, p. 77.

1. Feresia intermedia.

Orea intermedia, Gray, Zool. Hreb. & Terr. p.84 (1846); Cat. 8. § W.
p. 283.

a, Skull. (4a—362 a.)
Locality unknown.
Type. Figured in Zool. Ereb. & Terr. pl. viii.

b. Skull. (1672 a—74. 11. 25. 1.)
South Sea. Godeffroy Museum, 1874.
Figured and described by Gray as “‘ Feresia attenuata’ (type)

in Journ. Mus. Godeffroy, viii. 1875. See Flower, “On the
Delphinide,” P. Z.8. 1883, p. 510.

11. LAGENORHYNCHUS.
Lagenorhynchus, Gray, Zool. Ereb. §& Terr. p. 35 (1846).

1. Lagenorhynchus albirostris.

Lagenorhynchus albirostris, Gray, Ann. May. N. H. xvii. p. 84
(1846) ; Zool. Ereb: § Terr. p. 85 (1846).

a, Skeleton. (916 a—48. 7. 12. 12.)
Yarmouth,
The skull figured in Zool. Ereb. & Terr. pl. xi. p. 35.
6. Articulated skeleton. (916 6B—47, 10. 28. 5.)
Purchased, 1847.
ce. Skeleton. (916 d.)

South coast.
From the specimen described by Murie, Journ. Linn. Soc.
1871, p. 141, pl. v.
d. Cranium. ‘ (916 c—66. 2. 1. 28.)
Cromer. H. M. Upcher, Esq., 1866 [Pils

11. LaGzNoRHYNcHUS. 23

2. Lagenorhynchus acutus *,
(White-sided Dolphin.)

Delphinus acutus, Gray, Spic. Zool. i. p. 2 (1828

inus acutbus, Gray, Spie, Zoli. p. 2 (1828).

Delphinus eschrichtii, Schlegel, Abh. Coit Zool. &e. p. 23 (1841).
Delphinus leucopleurus, Rasch, Nova Spec. Descript. §c. (1843).
Leucopleurus arcticus, Gray, Synopsis Whales and Dolphins, p. 7

(1868),
a. Articulated skeleton. (360 a.)
Greenland, : Purchased,

Skull figured in Zool. Ereb, & Terr, pl. xii.

. 3. Lagenorhynchus electra.
Lagenorhynchus electra, Gray, Zool. Ereb. §& Terr. p. 85 (1848).
Electra obtiBs, Gray, Syn. Whales and Dolphins, p7 Cis). ’
a. Skull. (359 a.)
Type. Figured in Zool. Ereb. & Terr. pl. xiii.

The two following specimens probably belong to this species.

&. Skull without teeth. (358 a.)
Type of Gray’s ZL. asia, Zool. Ereb. & Terr. p. 35, pl. xiv.,
which appears to differ from the last only in its smaller size.

e. Skull. (475 a—66. 2. 5. 1.)
Madras. Sir Walter Elliot, K.C.S.I. [P.].
Type of Owen’s Delphinus fusiformis (Tr. Z.S. vi. p. 22, pl. vii.

figs. 1-5).

4, Lagenorhynchus fitzroyi.

Del — fitzroyi, Waterhouse, Zool. ‘ Beagle, Mamm. p. 25, pl. x.
(
a. Rostrum and anterior portion of lower jaw with all the teeth,
and the dried skin upon it; female.
Bay of St. Joseph, coast of Patagonia, lat. 42° 30’, April.
Charles Darwin, Esq. [P.].
Type of species.
“This porpoise, which was a female, was harpooned from the
‘Beagle’ out of several, in a large troop, which were sporting
round the ship” (C. Darwin).

5. Lagenorhynchus clanculus.

Lagenorhynchus clanculus, Gray, P. Z. S. 1849, p. 2.

a, Skull. (935 a—49. 5. 25. 3.)
Pacific Ocean. Dr. Dickie’s Collection. Purchased, 1849.

* On the synonymy of this species, see Flower, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1883,
pp. 491-3.

24

k.

l.

DELPHINIDA.

Type of species. Only known by the skull which is figured
in Zool. Ereb. & Terr. suppl. pl. xxxv. :

As far as the materials for comparison permit, no difference
can be seen between this and the last; it is therefore probable
that they belong to one species, for which the former name must
be retained. This cannot, however, be verified until the external
characters of an animal having a skull identical with that of
L. clanculus are compared with the figure of L. fitzroyt given in
the Voyage of the ‘ Beagle.’

12, DELPHINUS.
Delphinus, Linn. Syst. Nat, i. p. 108 (1776).

1. Delphinus delphis.
(The Common Dolphin.)
Delphinus delphis, Linn. 1. .

. Stuffed specimen.

English coast.

. Stuffed specimen ; young *.

English coast.

. Skeleton of 6.

. Coloured cast of head; male.

Woods Holl, Mass., U.S. A.

. Coloured cast of head; female.
The same locality as the last.

. Skeleton ; imperfect.

Skull.

Skull.

. Skull.
). Skull.

Skull; mutilated in occipital region.

Skull.

m. Skull.

n, Skull.

* In the “ British Gallery.”

(45. 4. 21. 29.)
Messrs. J. and C. Grove [P.].

(45. 2. 9. 3.)
Messrs. J. and C. Grove [P.].

(348 r.)

(83. 12. 24. 7.)
U. 8. Government, 1883 [P.}.

(83. 12, 24. 8.)
U.S. Government, 1883 [P.].

(348 n—47. 3. 22. 37.)
(348 a—51. 8. 14, 2.)
Purchased, 1851.

(848 k—47. 6. 2. 2.)
Purchased, 1847.

(348 n—46, 4. 28, 2.)
Purchased, 1846.

(848 6.)
Allan Cunningham, Esq. [P.].

(348 m— 50. 4. 8.1.)
Purchased, 1850,
(848 f,)

(348 0.)

Purchased, 1859,

(348 ¢.)

12, pELPHInvs. 25

o. Skull. : (348 7.)
Purchased, 1856.

p. Skull. (348 j—59. 9. 6. 101.)
North Sea. From Dr. A. Giinther’s Collection, 1859.

q. Skull, (848 AR—46. 1. 30. 14.)
Purchased, 1846.

r. Skull. (348 I—46. 7. 3. 7.)
Purchased, 1846.

s. Skull. (348 d.)
J.J. Bennett, Esq. [P.].

t. Skull. (348 n—46, 4. 15. 38.)
Antarctic Expedition. Admiralty [P.].

w. Skull. (348 p—46. 1. 22. 1.)
Purchased, 1846.

v. Skull. (848 c—46. 7. 27. 1.)

Atlantic Ocean; 400 miles south of St. Helena.
A. Pearson, Esq., 1846 [P.].

w. Skull. (848 g—57. 2. 5. 22.)
Southampton. Purchased, 1857,
w. Skull. (1625 a—66. 12. 27. 1.)

South Seas (J. D. C. Schmelz).

From the Godeffroy Museum, 1866.
Labelled “ Delphinus longirostris.”

y. Skeleton. (1536 a—69. 8. 11. 1.)
Tasmania. ; Purchased, 1869.
Formerly labelled “ Delphinus fulvifasciatus.”

z. Skeleton. (1680 a—76, 2. 16. 4.)
New Zealand. Colonial Museum, Wellington, 1876 [E.].
Formerly labelled “ Delphinus forstert.”

a’, Skeleton; young. (739 6—46. 4. 15. 37.)
Antarctic Expedition. Admiralty [P.].
Labelled “ Delphinus novee-zelandia.”

B, Skull. (352 g—69. 4. 5. 6.)

South Africa. Trustees of the South-African Museum [E.].

The following three specimens are of rather smaller size than the
above, and are separated by Dr. Gray under the name of

2. Delphinus janira.

Delphinus janira, Gray, Zool. Ereb. §& Terr. p. 41, pl. xxiii, (from
“Daleall f the Museum of the Bristol Institution).

. Skull. (1470 a.)
it From the Zoological Society.
Labelled by Dr. Gray “D. janira.”

26 DELPHINIDE.

b, Cranium. (1470 6.)
i From the Zoological Society.
c. Cranium. (1470 e—58. 10. 18. 2.)
Jamaica. J. H. Gurney, Esq., 1858 [P.].

3. Delphinus pomeegra.
Delphinus pomeegra, Owen, Tr. Z. 8. vi, p. 23, pl. vi. fig.3, & pl. viii.

_ figs. 1-4,

a. Cranium. (1478 a—66. 2. 5. 5.)
Madras seas. Sir Walter Elliot, K.C.8.I. [P.].
Type of species.

It does not appear to differ materially from Gray’s D. janira,
and is probably only a small variety of D. delphis.

4. Delphinus capensis.
Delphinus capensis, Gray, Spic. Zool. p. 2, pl. ii. fig. 1 (1828).
a. Stuffed specimen. (41. 17. 34.)
Cape of Good Hope (Captain Heaviside).

Transferred from the Museum of the Royal College of
Surgeons, 1841.

Type of species.
The skull was removed in 1884, and proves to be that of a true

Delphinus, but with a longer rostrum than any other in the Col-
lection except the following.

5. Delphinus major.
Delphinus major, Gray, Cat. S. § W. (1866) p. 396.

a. Skull. (1472 a—52. 10. 5. 2.)
é Purchased, 1852.
Type of species. |

Differs from D. delphis only in its larger size; may be the
same as the last.

13. TURSIOPS.
Tursiops, Gervais, Hist. Nat. Mamm. ii. p. 328 (1855).

1. Tursiops tursio.
(The Common Tursio.)

? Delphinus tursio, Fabr. Faun. Greenl. p. 49 (1780).

D. tursio, Bonn. Cét. p. 21 (1789),

D. truncatus, Montagu, Mem. Wern. Soe. iii. p. 75 (1821).
Tursio truncatus, Gray, Cat. 8. § W. p. 258 fis6e):

a, Coloured cast of head; male. (83. 12. 24. 5.)
Cherrystone Point, Virginia. U.S. Government [P.].

13. TURsIOPs. 27

From the U.S. National Museum; exhibited in the Inter-
national Fisheries Exhibition, London, 1883.
“Tursiops subridens, True (MS.).”

b. Coloured cast of head; female. - (83. 12. 24. 6.)
Cherrystone Point, Virginia. Received with the last.
“ Tursiops subridens, True (MS.).”
This differs from the last in the whiter colour of the throat.

c. Skeleton; male; aged. (353 d—66. 8. 7. 1.)
Firth of Forth. Purchased.
Skull figured in Supp. Cat. S. & W. 1871, p. 73.

d. Articulated skeleton; adult female. (353 e—66. 8. 7. 2.)
Firth of Forth. " Purchased.

é. Skeleton ; young. (353 f—66. 8. 7. 3.)
Firth of Forth. _ Purchased.

f. Skull. (353 g.)
Firth of Forth. Purchased.

g. Cranium. . (3538 a.)

From the Museum of Col. Montagu.

h. Skull. (353 hR—62. 7. 18. 15.)

7. Skull; young; without teeth. (353 i—63, 3. 3. 1.)
Herne Bay. J. Percival, Esq., 1863 [P.].

j. Skull. (357 6—63. 3. 3. 2.)
Herne Bay. J. Percival, Esq., 1863 [P.].
Formerly labelled “ 7. metis.”

k. Rostrum and lower jaw with the teeth. (73. 7. 3. 6.)

Seychelle Islands. Swinburne Ward, Esq., 1873 [P.].

Specimens closely resembling T. tursio, but assigned to
other species.
7, Skull. . (357 a.)
Type of 7. metis, Gray. Figured in Zool. Ereb. & Terr.
pl. xviii.

m. Skull; young. : 7 (355 a.)
Type of 7. cymodoce, Gray. Figured in Zool. Ereb. & Terr.
pl. xix.

nm. Skull. 5 : (356 a.)
Type of 2. eurynome, Gray. Figured in Zool. Ereb, & Terr.
1]. xvii.

This differs from the two former (which are probably 7’. tursio)
in the smaller sizo and greater number of the teeth.

28 DELPHINIDZ,

14, PRODELPHINUS.

Prodelphinus, Gervais, Ostéogr. des Cét. p. 604 (1880).

Clymene, Gray, P. Z. S. 1864, p. 237.

Clymenia, Gray, Syn. Whales and Dolphins, p. 6, 1868 (both pre-
occupied, see P. Z. 8. 1884, p. 418).

1. Prodelphinus obscurus.
Delphinus (Grampus) obscurus, Gray, Spic. Zool. p. 2 (1828).
a. Stuffed specimen; and skull removed from the same in 1884,
(41. 1783.)
Cape of Good Hope (Capt. Heaviside). Transferred from the
Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons (1841).
Type of species. Described and figured, loc. cit. pl. ii. fig. 3.

6. Skull. (354 a—46. 2. 5. 2.)
Purchased, 1846.

e. Skull. (354 6—46, 3. 11. 8.)
Cape of Good Hope. Purchased, 1846,

d, Skull, occipital region mutilated. (354 ¢.)
From the Zoological Society’s Collection.

e. Skull; rather young. (854 d—62. 7. 18. 14.)

Purchased, 1862.
Labelled in Dr. Gray’s handwriting “ Jursio obscurus.”

f. Cranium. (81. 10. 28. 1.)
Coquimbo, Chili (‘ Alert’ Expedition). Admiralty [P.].
Collected by Dr. R. W. Coppinger.

A large specimen with.long rostrum,

g. Cranium. (1509 8.)

- Trustees of the South-African Museum [P.]}.

Type of Clymene similis, Gray, P.Z.8. 1868, p. 147, fig. 2
(palate).

The specific determination of the three following specimens is
doubtful :—

Skull, cranial portion much mutilated. (934 a—49. 5, 25. 4.)
West coast of America (Dr. Dickie), Purchased, 1849,
Type of Lagenorhynchus thicolea, Gray, P.Z.8. 1849, p. 2.

Afterwards Electra thicolea, Suppl. Cat. 8. & W. 1871, p. 77.
Figured among the supplementary plates of the Zool. Ereb. &
Terr. pl. xxxvi. For observations upon this specimen, see P. Z. 8.
1883, p. 496.

A very similar cranium of larger size.
No history.

14, pRopELPHINvs. 29

Skeleton ; very young. (1509 a—67. 4. 4. 2.)

Cape of Good Hope. E. L. Layard, Esq. [P.].
Probably Prodelphinus obscurus. aa,
Skin preserved in spirit.

2. Prodelphinus euphrosyne.
Delphinus euphrosyne, Gray, Zool. Ereb. & Terr. p. 40, pl. xxii. (1846
from the type in the Norwich Museum, iibas iis

? Delphinus styx, Gray, Zool. Ereb. & Terr. p. 40, pl. xxi. (1846).
Clymene dorides, Gray, P. Z. 8. 1866, p. DIB, es ie

ae re euphrosynoides, Gray, Syn. Whales and Dolphins, p. 6
To which should probably be added :—

Orca tethyos, Gervais, Bull. Soc. Hérault, 1858, p. 140.
. ee marginatus, Duvernoy (Pucheran, Revue et Mag. Zool.
a, Skull. (351 a—44, 7. 19. 23.)
From the Chatham Museum.
The specimen referred to in Zool. Ereb. & Terr. p. 40, under
Delphinus euphrosyne, as “ var., rather smaller.” It is figured
among the supplementary plates of that work (pl. xxxi.) as Del-
phinus euphrosyne, and is.the type of Clymenia euphrosynoides,

Gray, Syn. Whales and Dolphins, p. 6.

6. Skull. (1473 a—6l. 4. 1. 7.)
Purchased, 1861.
Type of Clymene dorides, Gray, P.Z. 8. 1866, p. 215.
It bears much resemblance to the figure of D. sty# in the Zool.
Ereb. & Terr., the original of which was in the United-Service
Museum, now dispersed.

e. Skull, (351 6—69. 4. 5. 7.)
South Africa. Trustees of the South-African Museum, 1869 [P.}.

Labelled by Dr. Gray, “ Delphinus ewphrosyne,” and afterwards
“ Clymenia euphrosynoides.”

3. Prodelphinus doris,

Delphinus doris, Gray, Zool. Ereb. § Terr. p. 39, pl. xx. (1846).
? Delphinus dubius, Cuvier, Ann, Mus, xix. p. 14 (1812).

a. Skull. (352 a.)
The specimen figured in Zool. Ereb. & Terr. pl. xx.

b. Skull. (352 8.)
From the Haslar Hospital.

e Skull. (852 c—50. 1. 11. 24.)
Purchased, 1850.

d, Skull. (852 d—54. 10. 21. 9.)
Purchased, 1854,

e. Skull. (852 e—52. 10. 5. 3.)

Purchased, 1852.

30 DELPHINID A.

. Skull. (78. 2. 11, 1.)
Mid-Atlantic. Purchased, 1878.

g Skull. (352 f—62. 12. 2. 6.)
Fernando Po (Capt. Burton). Purchased, 1862.

A, Cranium. (350 a.)
Type of Delphinus clymene, Gray, Cat. 8. & W. p. 249; Clyme-
nia normalis, P. Z.8. 1866, p. 214.

4, Prodelphinus attenuatus.
Steno attenuatus, Gray, Zool. Ereb. & Terr. p. 44 (1846).

This name is retained at present for a series of specimens closely
resembling the last group, but with a more slender rostrum and
with the teeth slightly smaller and more numerous.

Though single well-marked specimens of Gray’s Clymenia doris
and Steno attenuatus may be so unlike as to justify their being
placed in distinct species, yet when a large series, such as those of
the British Museum and College of Surgeons combined, are compared
together, the two extremes pass so insensibly into each other that it
is impossible to say where one begins and the other ends, and it is
difficult to avoid the suspicion that the differences depend upon age,
or sex, or on individual variation. Unfortunately these forms are
known at present only by skulls. When the remaining parts of their
organization can be correlated with them, probably other specific
distinctions will be demonstrated. 7

a. Skull, (847 6.)
Type of Steno attenuatus. Figured in Zool. Ereb. & Terr. pl. xxviii.

6. Skull, (847 d—50. 1. 26. 7.)
Lieut. Wood and Capt. Kellett [P.].

e. Skull. (847 f—73. 7. 3. 5.)
Seychelle Islands. Swinburne Ward, Esq., 1873 [P.].

d. Skull; without teeth. (8 a, Old Catalogue—347 a.)
India. Mrs. Ince [P.].

é Skull. (847 e—69. 5, 21. 2.)

Seychelle Islands. Collected by Dr. E. Perceval Wright.
Purchased, 1869.

f. Cranium. From the Zoological Society’s Museum.

g. Cranium. (3847 c—46. 7. 27. 2.)
Locality 9° N. lat. A. Pearson, Esq., 1846 [P.].

h. Skull. (1519 a—69, 4. 5. 5.)
Cape of Good Hope.

Trustees of South-African Museum, 1869 [P.].
_ Type of Steno capensis, Gray, P. Z. 8. 1865, p. 522.

14, propeLpHiInvs.—15, sTENo. 31

5. Prodelphinus alope.
Delphinus alope, Gray, Cat. Cet. B, M. (1850) p. 118.

a. Skull. (847 a—47. 7. 6. 2.)

: : Purchased, 1847.

Type of species. Figured in no. xxxii. of the supplementary
plates of the Zool. Ereb. & Terr.

The upper part of the cranium is broken away.

b. Skull. (60. 12. 17. 6.)
Assigned by Dr. Gray to this species.

6. Prodelphinus microps.

Delphinus microps, Gray, Zool, Ereb. & Terr. p. 42 (1846),
a, Skull, (349 a.)

. ; From the Haslar Hospital Museum.
Type of species. Figured in Zool. Ereb. & Terr. pl. xxv.
Probably the same as the next.

7. Prodelphinus longirostris.
Delphinus ener Gray, Spic. Zool. p. 1 (1828) (type in Leyden
useum).
Delphinus stenorhynchus, Gray, Cat. S. §& W. 1866, p. 396.
Clymenia stenorhyncha, Gray, Suppl. Cat. S. § W. 1871, p. 68.

a. Skull. (1471 a—50. 6. 5. 9.)
Purchased, 1850.
Type of D. stenorhynchus, Gray.
This specimen was in Cat. S. & W. (1866) p. 240 referred to
D, microps, but at page 396 of the same work séparated as
D, stenorhynchus, of which it is the type. It is probably the same
as D. longirostris of the ‘ Spicilegia.’

15. STENO.
Steno, Gray, Zool, Ereb. & Terr. p. 483 (1846).

1. Steno rostratus*.

Delphinus rostratus (Cwv.), Desmarest, Nouv. Dict. d’ Hist. Nat. ix,
p. 160 (1817); Mammalogie, p. 515 (1822). : :
Delphinus frontatus (in part), Cuv. Ossem. Foss. (2° édit.) v. pt. i,
p. 278 (which name was abandoned in the same work at p. 400),
1, xxi. figs. 7 & 8 (1823). ;
paphinus rostratus, F. Cuv. Cét. p. 156 (1886); Cuv. Oss. Foss.
(4¢ édit.) viii. p. 121, pl. ccxxii. figs. 7, 8 (1836).
Steno frontatus, Gray, Cat. 8. § W. p. 233 (1866).
Steno (Glyphidelphis) rostratus, Gervais, Ostéogr. Cét. p. 549,
pl. xxxvil. figs, 8-11 (1880).
The following six specimens were labelled by Dr. Gray “Steno
frontatus”? :—

* For a full account of the complicated synonymy of this species, see P. Z. S.
1883, p. 482.

32 DELPHINIDA.

a. Skull. (845 ¢.)
India.

b. Skull. (345 e.)

¢. Skull. (845 d—43, 2. 24. 5.)

Purchased, 1843.

d. Skull. (345 h—79. 11. 21. 195.)

Received from the India Museum, 1879,

e. Skull. (345 g—69. 4. 5. 4.)

Cape seas. Trustees of the South-African Museum, 1869 [P.].

f. Skull. (345 f.)

Purchased,

The four following specimens were labelled ‘‘ Steno compressus”
(Gray, Zool. Ereb. & Terr. p. 43, 1846), which, if distinct from
S. rostratus, is the same as Schlegel’s Delphinus reinwardtii
(Abhandl. Geb. Zool. p. 27, 1841) :—

g. Skull. (346 a.)
Type of S. compressus, Gray. Figured in the Zool. Ereb. & Terr,
pl. xxvii.

h. Skull. (346 6—45. 12. 29. 2.)
Purchased, 1845.

i, Skull. (346 d.)
South Seas. Antarctic Expedition. Admiralty [P.].

j. Skull. (846 e—5l. 7. 25. 4.)

16. SOTALIA.
Sotalia, Gray, Cat. S. § W. (2nd edit.) p. 393 (1866).

1. Sotalia tucuxi.
Steno tucuxi, Gray, Ann. § Mag. N. H. xviii. p. 158 (1857).

a, Skull; young male. (1189 a—56. 8. 2. 2.)
Upper Amazon, near Santarem. From Mr. Bates’s Collection.
Type of species.

b. Skull; young female. (1189 6—56, 8. 2. 3.)
Same locality. Mr. Bates’s Collection,

2. Sotalia plumbea.

a plumbeus, Dussumier, Cuv, Reg. Anim, (2° édit.) i. p. 288

a, Skull. (82. 1. 2. 1.)
Karachi. Karachi Museum, 1882 [E.}.

16. sorazra. 83

3. Sotalia gadamu.

ar eae gadamu, Owen, Tr. Z. 8. vi. p.17, pl. iii. figs. 1 & 2,

The three specimens placed provisionally under this name, though
otherwise much alike, exhibit a gradual transition in the characters
of the pterygoid bones, which in the last closely resemble those of
the ordinary Dolphins (Delphinus and Prodelphinus), not showing
that separation in the middle line characteristic of the well-marked
members of the genus Sotalia. It becomes a question to be resolved
by the acquisition of further. materials, whether ‘this may be a
chauge due to age, or whether it is of specific importance.

a. Skull; mutilated behind. (1477 a—66. 2, 5. 3.)
Vizagapatam. Sir Walter Elliot, K.C.8.1. [P.].
Type of species.

%. Stuffed specimen; and skull taken from it. (82. 1. 2. 3.)
Karachi. Karachi Museum, 1882 [E.]

c. Stuffed specimen 3 young; and skull taken from the same.

(83. 11. 20. 3.)

Secretary of State for India [P.].
Exhibited in the Indian Section, International Fisheries Exhi-
bition, London, 1883.

4. Sotalia lentiginosa.
Delphinus (Steno?) lentiginosus, Owen, Tr. Z. S. vi. p. 20, pl. v.

figs. 2 & 3.
a. Skull. (1476 a-—66. 2. 5. 2.)
Vizagapatam. Sir Walter Elliot, K.C.8.I. [P.].

Type of species. It differs very little from the last.

ALPHABETICAL INDEX.

acutus (Delphinus), 23.

acutus (Lagenorhyn-
chus), 23.

albicans (Balena), 14.

albirostris (Lagenorhyn-
chus), 22.

alope (Delphinus), 31.

angulata (Balena), 1.

antipodarum (Caperea),
4

antiquorum (Balena), 5.

arcticus (Leucopleurus),
23.

arnuxii (Berardius), 12.
asia (Lagenorhynchus),
23.

attenuata (Feresia), 22.

attenuatus (Prodelphi-
nus), 30.

attenuatus (Steno), 30.

australis (Balena), 2.

australis (Eubalena), 2. |

australis (Mesoplodon),
11.

Balena, 1.

Balenide, 1.

Balenoptera, 5.

Beluga, 14.

beluga (Delphinapterus),
14 ‘

Berardius, 12.

bidens (Mesoplodon), 11.

bidens (Physeter), 11.

pidentatus (Delphinus),
9

biscayensis (Balena), 2, 3.

blainvillei (Delphinus),
13.

blainvillii (Pontoporia),
3

13.
boops (Balzena), 4.
boops, a fami 4.
boops (Physalus), 6.
boops (Rorqualus), 6.
borealis (Balsznoptera),
6.

breviceps (Kogia), 9.
breviceps (Physeter), 9.

brevirostris (Orcella), 17.

britannica (Halibalena),

britannicus (Macleayius),
butakopf (Delphinus),
butskopf (Hyperoodon),

capensis (Delphinus), 26.

capensis (Orca), 18.

capensis (Petrorhyn-
chus), 10.

capensis (Steno), 30.

Caperea, 3.

catodon (Beluga), 14.

cavirostris (Ziphius), 10.

Cephalorhynchus, 16.

chathamiensis (Epio-
don), 10.

Se neenae (Ziphius),
10.

chinensis (Swinhoia), 7.

cisarctica (Balena), 2.

clanculus (Lagenorhyn-
chus), 23.

Clymene, 28.

clymene (Delphinus), 30.

Clymenia, 28.

communis (Phocrna),
15.

compressus (Steno), 32.

crassidens (Phocena),

9 :

crassidens (Pseudorca),
9

cuvieri (Grampus), 21.

Cuvierius, 6.

cymodoce (Tursiops),
27.

Delphinapterus, 14.

Delphinide, 14.

Delphinus, 9, 24.

delphis (Delphinus), 24,
26

depressa (Balzna), 3.
dickii (Eutropia), 17.
diodon (Delphinus), 9.
dorides (Clymene), 29.
doris (Clymenia), 30.
doris (Delphinus), 29.
dubius (Delphinus), 29.
duguidii (Physalus), 6.

electra (Lagenorhyn-
chus), 23.° :

eschrichtii (Delphinus), .
23

euphrosyne (Delphinus),
29

euphrosynoides (Clyme-
nia), 29.

Euphysetes, 9.

eurynome (Tursiops), 27.

eutropia (Cephalorhyn-
chus), 17.

“ee (Delphinus),
17.

Feresia, 22. :
fitzroyi (Delphinus), 23.
fitzroyi (Lagenorhyn-
chus), 23.
fluminalis (Orcella), 17.
fosteri (Delphinus), 25,
oo (Delphinus),
1

frontatus (Steno), 31.

fulvifasciatus (Delphi-
nus), 25.

fusiformis (Delphinus),
23. :

gadamu, 33.
gangetica (Platanista),
1

gangeticus (Delphinus),
12.

geoffrensis (Inia), 13.
gladiator (Delphinus),
18,

Globicephalus, 19.
Globiceps, 19.
glaticeps (Delphinus),

Globiocephalus, 19.
Grampus, 21.

griseus (Delphinus), 21.
griseus (Grampus), 21.

heavisidii (Cephalorhyn-
chus), 16.

heavisidii (Delphinus),
16

hectori (Berardius), 12.
hectori (Mesoplodon), 12.

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huttoni (Balenoptera),
7.
Hyperoodon, 9.

incrassatus (Globioce-
halus), 19.

indicus (Ziphius), 10.

Inia, 18.

Iniine, 13.

intermedia (Feresia), 22.

intermedia (Orca), 22.

janira (Delphinus), 25.

kingii (Beluga), 15.

kingii (Delphinus), 15.

knoxii (Benedenia), 6.

knoxii (Mesoplodon),
12

Kogia, 9.

Lagenorhynchus, 22.
laticeps (Balzenoptera),
6

latifrons (Hyperoodon),
10.

latifrons (Lagenocetus),
10.

latirostris (Cuvierius), 6.

latirostris (Orca), 18,

latirostris (Physalus), 6.

layardii (Dolichodon),
11.

layardi (Mesoplodon),
ll

layardii (Ziphius), 11.

lentiginosa (Sotalia), 33.

eg osus (Delphinus),
3.

lentiginosus (Steno), 33.
leucas (Delphinapterus),
14.

leucopleurus (Delphi-
nus), 23.
lineata (Phocsena), 15,
longimana (Balena), 4.
eee (Delphinus),
1.

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macleayii (Kogia), 9.

macrocephalus (Physe-
ter), 8.

macrorhynchus (Globi-
cephalus), 21.

macrorhynchus (Globio-
cephalus), 21.

major (Delphinus), 26.

marginata (Balzna), +.

ALPHABETICAL INDEX.

marginata(Neobalena), 4.

marginatus (Delphinus),
29.

Megaptera, 4.

melas (Delphinus), 19.

melas (Globicephalus),
19, 21.

meridionalis (Orca), 19.

Mesoplodon, 11.

metis (Tursiops), 27.

microps (Delphinus), 31.

monoceros (Monodon),
14.

Monodon, 14.

musculus (Balzena), 5.

musculus (Balznoptera),
5, 7.

Mystacoceti, 1.

mysticetus (Balzna), 1.

Neobalena, 3.

normalis (Clymenia), 30.

novee-zealandie (Mega-
ptera), 5.

nove-zelandiz (Delphi-
nus), 25.

obscurus (Delphin us),28.

obscurus (Grampus), 28.

obscurus (Prodelphinus),
8

obscurus (Tursio), 28.
obtusa (Electra), 23.
Odontoceti, 8.

Orca, 17.

orca (Delphinus), 18.
Orcaella, 17.

Orcella, 17.

pacifica (Orea), 18.

Physalus, 6.

physalus (Balzna), 5.

Physeter, 8.

Physeteride, 8.

Physeterine, 8.

Phoczna, 15.

phoceena (Delphinus), 15.

planifrons(Hyperoodon),
10.

Platanista, 12.

Platanistide, 12.

Platanistine, 12.

plumbea (Sotalia), 32.

plumbeus (Delphinus),
32

po meegra (Delphinus),26,
Pontoporia, 13.
Pontoporiinz, 13,

Prodelphinus, 28.
Pseudorca, 19.

reinwardtii (Delphinus),
32.

richardsonii (Grampus),
21.

rorqual (Balzna), 5.

rostrata (Balena), 6, 9.

rostratus (Delphinus),
3

rostratus (Gly phidel-
phis), 31.

rostratus (Hyperoodon),
9

rostratus (Steno), 31.
sibbaldii (Baleenoptera),
6

sibbaldii (Cuvierius), 6.
sibbaldii (Physalus), 6.
sibbaldii (Rorqualus), 6.
similis (Clymene), 28.
simus (Eupbysetes), 9.
sinus (Physeter), 9.
Sotalia, 32.

_sowerbiensis (Delphinus),

11
sowerbiensis (Hetero-
don), 11.
Sphzrocephalus, 20.
Steno, 31.
stenorhyncha (Clyme-
nia), dl. .
stenorhyncha (Orca), 18.
stenorbynchus (Delphi-
nus), dl.
styx (Delphinus), 29.
subridens (Tursiops), 27.
svineval (Globiocepha-
lus), 19.
swinhoii (Baleenoptera),7.

tethyos (Orca), 29.

Thicolea, 28.

truncatus (Delphinus),
26.

truncatus (Tursio), 26.
tuberculifera (Phocena),

tucuxi (Sotalia), 32.
tucuxi (Steno), 32.
tursjo (Delphinus), 26.
tursio (Tursiops), 26.
‘Lursiops, 26."

Ziphiine, 9.
Ziphius, 10.

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