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Orca. Dr. Gray has reexamined the skulls of this genus, Proc. Zool. Soc.
1870, pp. 70-77. He divides the species thus :—
a. Gladiator: 1, Orca stenorhyncha, sp. n., from the North Sea, p. 71,
with fig. of skull.
b, Orca: 2. O. capensis, with fig. of skull; 3. O. latirostris, sp. n., North
Sea; 4. O. magellanica.
c. Ophysia: 5. 0. pacifica, sp. n.
d. Feresa: 6. O. intermedia.
e. Orcaella: 7. O. brevirostris.
The two British species are also noticed in Ann. & Mag. 1870, v. p. 148.
Orca magellanica described by Burmeister, An. Mus. Buen. Aires, 1869,
pp. 373-380, pi. 22.
Grampus rissoanus. A detailed description of this Dolphin, and of the
anatomy of its soft parts. Murie, Journ. Anat. & Physiol, v. 1870, pp. 118-
138, pi. 5.
Phoccena communis. Brain figured by Eschricht, I. c. pi. 9, with explanation
by Reinhardt.
Phoccena spinipinnis described by Burmeister, An. Mus. Buen. Aires, 1869,
pp. 380-388, pis. 23 & 24.
Globicephalus macrorhynchus. Notes by Hector, Ann. & Mag. N. H. 1870, v.
p. 222, and Tr. N. Z. Inst. 1870, ii. p. 28.
Globicephalus grayi described by Burmeister, I. c. pp. 367-373, pi. 21.
Delphinus sinensis. The skeleton described and figured. W. H. Flower,
Trans. Zool. Soc. 1870, pp. 151-160, pis. 10 & 18.—Notes on its occurrence,
Swinhoe, P. Z. S. 1870, p. 652.
Delphinus euphrosyne. Skull figured, Gray, Synopsis, tab. 31.—D. alope.
Skull figured, Id. ibid. tab. 326.—D. eutropia. Skull figured, Id. ibid.
tab. 34.
Delphinapterus leucas has been observed in the Baltic. Hisinger, 03fVers.
Finsk. Vet.-Selsk. Forh. xii. 1870, p. 136.—Skull and dentition figured,
Eschricht, I. c. pi. 8, with explanation by Reinhardt.
Pontoporia blainvillii. A detailed description of its external and internal
organization, Burmeister, An. Mus. Buen. Aires, 1869, pp. 389-442, pi. 23.
fig. 1, and pis. 25-28.
Lagenorhynchus clanculus. Notes: Hector, Ann. & Mag. N.H. 1870, v. p.223,
and Tr. N. Z. Inst. 1870, ii. p. 27.—Skull figured, Gray, Synopsis, tah. 35.
Lagenorhynchus thicolea. Skull figured, Id. ibid. tab. 36.
Hyperoodon latifrons. Skull of a male figured, Eschricht, I. c. pi. 6, with
explanation by Reinhardt.
Hyperoodon rostratus. A male fcetus and its skeleton figured, Eschricht,
I. c. pi. 7, with explanation by Reinhardt.
Ziphius. See above (p. 15), under OWEN, R.
Ziphius sowerbiensis. An account of its history, with notes on the example
referred to in Zool. Record, iv. p. 39, W. Andrews, Trans. R. Ir. Acad. xxiv.
pp. 429-438. The snout is figured on pi. 25.—SkuU figured, Gray, Synopsis,
tab. 37.
Ziphius arnouxii. Notes : Hector and Haast, Tr. N. Z. Inst. 1870, ii. p. 27,
and Ann. & Mag. N. II. 1870, v. p. 222.—" Preliminary notice of a Ziphoid
Whale, probably Berardiim armixii, stranded on the 16th of December, 1868,
on the sea-beach, near Brighton, Canterbury, New Zealand," Haast in Tr.
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