1. I'LATANISTA. O»>o 



are rather distant, the front rather longer than the others. In the 

 middle-age specimens, as that figured by Homo (Phil. Trans. ISIh! 

 t. I J, t. -0), tlio roots of the teeth are compressed and hollow but 

 1.1 the more aged animal they are much lengthened, solid, st'roni 



1. Platanista Gangetica. The Svsu. 

 Blackish-red colour, rather paler beneath. 



searches, vii. 1/0. t. o, 1811 ; Desni. Mamm. ,513 ; Fischer Sun 'iOa ■ 

 oc/ilrffr/, Ahhandl. 28. i. o lu , 



Delphinorlnnchus Gangeticus, imow, ilf««. 40G (from lifel 

 Pla^am,^a Uan-^etica, Gray, Illust. Ind. Zool. t. ) zZ T&. T 45 • 

 Cat Mamm. B.M. ; Cat. Cetac. B. M. 18.50, 137 ; >. CW CHac'^2 ■ 

 Blake, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bern,. I860, 449- Bldh T?2^ ^f<}c/oJ, 

 12; Asiatic Besearehes,xii. Append xxvixvXmU.J" ••"'• ^''• 



11. 1851 ; A>m. ^- Mag. N. H. 1852, 1(51. t. 46. "^ "'• 



t-riit^^^^r^^r"™^'"- ^'^^- ^- ^«^- -• 1-^3 (from 



Platanista, Lesson. 



Susu, ffi-^uv. ^^^o«, i. 215. t. 3. f 3, 1828 



Platanista, />//«. Hist. Nat. ix. eh. 15 



^'iiy '^^ ^''"°'' ^"'■'■''■^ ^*^- ^'''- ^- '• 22- i- 8, 10 (from spec. 



(t. Stuffed specimen. India. Ganges. 



b. Stuffed specimen : younger. India, Ganges. 



lS;e, Esq '"' '''"''"^- ^"^^^- ^"^'^"t^d by Gifson V 



are pregnant. I he embryo before birth is 14 or 15 inches Ion- 



" There are three stuffed specimens (an adult male, a youno- and old 

 femde) and two skulls (male and female) in the Museum of the 

 Asiatic Society of Calcutta, and a fine scries of skcleto,?. t Ih. 

 Museum of the Calcutta Medical ColIege."_i?7v/7! '^^'^'*«"' ^^ ^^^ 



" The >'Si(^n abounds in the river Houglv • it "is extrempK- .1,-ffl u 

 to procure, at least in the ncinity of dalnt^lTZti:^^^^^ 

 taken the captors saw off the rostrum '—B7,/th 



-In wluvt I believe to be the skull of an ad.dt male the svm 

 Physis ot the lower jaw measures 17 inches, in the adidt female onty 



