A. The beak of the skull tapering and narrow in front, end narrow. Gladiator.
1. Orca stenorhyncha. (Figs. 7 & 9.)
B.M.
Orca stenorhyncha, Gray, P. Z. S. 1870, p. 71, figs. 1 & 3 (skull).
Orca gladiator, Gray, Cat. Seals & Whales, p. 279.
Inhab. North Sea. Skeleton from Weymouth, and a skull from the English coast. B.M.
Intermaxillaries narrow in the middle and rather dilated in front; but the extent of dilatation varies in the two specimens.
The examination of the four skulls of Orca found on the English coast show they belong to two very distinct species, one with a much more attenuated beak than the other.
B. Beak of the skull spatulate; sides of the hinder half nearly parallel, of the front half arched and converging; end rounded, middle rather wider than at the notch. Orca.