Volume 16, Plate XXII / Mammalia (Mammals)

Striped Porpoise & Fuenas of the Chilians

Phoæna Bivittatus & Delphinus Lunatus

1. The Striped Porpoise. One of the smallest of the group, about two and a half feet long and ten inches thick, deep shining black above with white belly and a satiny white streak along each side broken opposite the dorsal fin. With a short conical snout and a moderately high black dorsal, it followed a vessel in a high sea, springing over the billows; it was seen near the Falkland Islands.
2. The Fuenas of the Chilians. Massive in form, about three feet long, with a slender beak and a dorsal fin rounded at the top, it is clear fawn above passing into white beneath, marked by an accurately defined dark-brown cross on the back before the dorsal fin. It destroys great quantities of fish, hunting busily at sunrise and then playing and leaping; it is seen in very great numbers only in the Bay of Talcahuano, Chile.