Guide to the galleries of mammalia (mammalian, osteological, cetacean) in the Department of Zoology of the British Museum (Natural History).
- British Museum (Natural History). Department of Zoology.
- Date:
- 1892
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Guide to the galleries of mammalia (mammalian, osteological, cetacean) in the Department of Zoology of the British Museum (Natural History). Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![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. Gram2ms 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-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28122574_0126.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
