108 BULLETIN 178, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



*Paradoxurus parvus Miller. 



Smithsonian Misc. Coll. 61 (21) : 1, Dec. 29, 1913. 

 114175. Skin and skull. Adult male. Simalur Island, off west 

 coast of Sumatra. December 15, 1901. Collected by W. L. 

 Abbott. Original number 1385. 



Well-made skin in good condition ; skull Grade A, 



Genus VIVERRICULA Hodgson ^^ 



*Viverricula malaccensis thai Kloss. 



Journ. Nat. Hist. Soc. Slam 3 : 352, Dec. 31, 1919. 

 236629. Skin and skull. Adult female. Prapatom, central 

 Siam. November 20, 1916. Collected by C. Boden Kloss. 

 Original number 2449. 



Well-made skin in good condition; skull Grade A. 



Order CETACEA: Whales, Porpoises 

 Family BALAENOPTERIDAE : Finbacks 

 Genus BALAENOPTERA Lacepede 

 *Balaenoptera davidsoni Scammon. 



Proe. California Acad. Sci. 4: 269, printed in advance, Oct. 4, 1872. 

 12177. Skull. Adult female. Admiralty Inlet, Puget Sound, 

 Wash. October 1870. Collected by C. M. Scammon. 



Skull in good condition. 



Type not designated by number. See True, Smithsonian Contrib. Knowl. 

 33: 91, 1904. 



Not certainly distinct from Balaenoptera acutorostrata Lac6p6de. See 

 Cowan, Journ. Mamm. 20 : 224, May 1939. 



Family DELPHINIDAE: Porpoises 

 Genus DELPHINUS Linnaeus 



*Delphinus albimanus Peale. 



U. S. Exploring Expedition 8 (Mamm. and Ornith.) : 33, 1848. 

 =Delphinus delphis Linnaeus. See True, U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 36 : 45, 1889. 



^^. Mounted skin and iaw. Female. Off the coast of Chile, 

 4107 "' 



lat. 27°16' S., long. 75°30' W. Collected by U. S. ship Peacock. 



No. 31, Peale's list of specimens, op. cit., p. 305. Cataloged June 

 26, 1860. For further information, see True, op. cit., p. 55. 



Skin, formerly mounted. In 1910, while it was being moved, this 

 mounted specimen fell and was badly broken. It cannot now be found. 

 From both mandibles the tip and posterior portions have been cut off, and 

 the left mandible is, in addition, broken near the tip. 



1* The status of the members of this genus has been discussed by Pococli, Journ. Bom- 

 bay Nat. Hist. Soc. 34 : 629-656, Aug. 15, 1933. 



