. Catalogue of seals and whales in the ... Museum. 398 ADDITIONS AND COEEECTIONS. Length from end of snout to tip of tail 6 feet 7i inches; the other measurements are nearly the same as in D. Moorei. The skulls show that these species helong to the restricted genus BelpMnus, which has D. Delphis for its type. These have a very deep groove on each side of the palate. Fig. Delphinus IValkeri. Both the figures of the animals belonging to these species have a narrow black streak from the base of the upper part of the beak to the eye; but the colours of the sides of the animals are differentl
. Catalogue of seals and whales in the ... Museum. 398 ADDITIONS AND COEEECTIONS. Length from end of snout to tip of tail 6 feet 7i inches; the other measurements are nearly the same as in D. Moorei. The skulls show that these species helong to the restricted genus BelpMnus, which has D. Delphis for its type. These have a very deep groove on each side of the palate. Fig. Delphinus IValkeri. Both the figures of the animals belonging to these species have a narrow black streak from the base of the upper part of the beak to the eye; but the colours of the sides of the animals are differently distributed. There is also a veiy slight difference in the form of the bladebones (and this cannot be sexual, as they were both females), and in the form of the back part of the palate just in front of the hinder entrance to the nostrils. Considering that the colouring of the animals shows that they repre- sent two species, one is stmck with the very small diiference exhibited in the skull by species showing such marked external differences, , and can only conclude by thinking how hasty we have been when we have referred skulls received from very distant parts of the world all to Delphinus Delphis, and said that that sj^ecies had a very wide geographical distribution—more especially when we consider that these two species were obtained, the one in lat. 35° 38' S., long. 10' E., and the other in lat. 34° S., long. 7° 3' W. Delphinus Janira (page 245), add:— a. SkuU. Jamaica. Presented by J. H. Gurney, Esq. Length of skuU 16 inches, of beak 9|-; width at notch 3|. Teeth 47/, five in an inch length of maxilla. The beak of the skull twice and three-quarters the brr of the notch in length. After Delphinus Janira, (at page 246) add:— Delphinus punctatus. The beak of the skull once and a half the length of the brain- ca\itj', depressed behind, and gradually tapering and rather slender in front, in length nearly three times the width at the notch. Lower jaw attenuated
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