Common Dolphin, Delphinus delphis

Plate 22. The Yellow-sided Dolphin, Delphinus novæ zealandiæ (now known as Common Dolphin, Delphinus delphis), found in Hobson's Bay

This is the only dolphin, or "Bottle-nose," as sailors say, which I have noticed on the Victorian coasts. It not unfrequently visits Hobson's Bay, generally in August, and following shoals of Pilchards or other fish, on which it feeds.