. Catalogue of seals and whales in the British Museum. British Museum (Natural History); Seals (Animals); Whales. ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS. 397 including the pectoral fin, grey ; the chin and belly to the vent white. Dorsal fins high ; tip rounded. Delphinus Moorii, Gray, P. Z. S. 1865, 730. Inhab. South Atlantic Ocean, lat. 34° S., long. 7° 3'W. Length of a female from mouth to tip of tail 6 feet 3| inches, of mouth 11 inches, of snout 5^, to eye 13, to snout-hole 13, to pectoral fin 18|, to back fin 33 ; length from end of tail to back fin 32 inches, to vent 20, to privates 21; diameter of
. Catalogue of seals and whales in the British Museum. British Museum (Natural History); Seals (Animals); Whales. ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS. 397 including the pectoral fin, grey ; the chin and belly to the vent white. Dorsal fins high ; tip rounded. Delphinus Moorii, Gray, P. Z. S. 1865, 730. Inhab. South Atlantic Ocean, lat. 34° S., long. 7° 3'W. Length of a female from mouth to tip of tail 6 feet 3| inches, of mouth 11 inches, of snout 5^, to eye 13, to snout-hole 13, to pectoral fin 18|, to back fin 33 ; length from end of tail to back fin 32 inches, to vent 20, to privates 21; diameter of back fin 14-| inches. Fig. Delphinus Moorei. 3***. Delphinus Walkeri. The skull similar to the former, so similar that it is not easy to point out any difference in words. The teeth are rather more numerous, \\i. 49-^9, rather smaller, being six in an inch length of margin. The hinder part of the palate, in front of the inner nasal opening, narrower and very sharply keeled on the sides; the sides of the narrower and shallower central groove convex, smaller, and the outer sides of the keels concave and shorter. The bladebone not so much produced behind the ridge, and with an oblique hinder margin, without any truncation at the lower part. The coracoid process is similar, but broader in the middle of its length, the lower edge being nearly straight. Length of skull 16^ inches, of beak 11, of brain-ease 6|, of lower jaw 14|; width over condyles 6 inches 7 lines, at notch 3 inches 4 lines, at middle of the beak 1 inch 10 lines. The back fin, snout, the dorsal fin, a wavy streak from base of beak to eye, and upper surface of tail black; sides of the face and body to near the base of the tail grey, with an elongated triangular patch beginning below the pectoral fin aud extending near to the base of the tail, the broadest part over the vent. Dorsal fin high, as high as long at the base; tip acute, bent back. Chin and beneath, as high as the base of the pectoral fin, and to the
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