DELPHINUS. 



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Ursus tibetanus, F. Cuv. Mam. Lithog. t; Jerdon, Mam. Ind. 

 p, 70; Murray, HdhJc, Zool., 8fc., Sind. Ursus torquatus, Schinz. 

 Syn. Mam. p. 302; Gray, P. Z. 8. 1864, p. 688; Cat. Mam. Br. 

 Mas. p. 226. Helarctos malayanas, Hodgson, J. A. 8. B. 1, p. 340. 

 Ileench or Beech, Baloo, Hiud.; Mumh,^e\.; Beech, Sind. — The Indian 

 Black or Thibetan Bear. 



Ynv black ; lower lip and chin white. A broad forked white mark 

 on the chest, rather contracted behind ; cheeks with bushy hairs; face 

 brownish ; neck thick ; head flattened ; ears rather large ; upper tuber- 

 cular molar elongate, half as long again as the flesh tooth. 



Hah. — The mountains of Sylhet and Nepaul, on the Himalayas, and 

 the hill ranges of Assam from 5,000 to 12,000 feet, said to be rare in 

 Thibet. Inhabits the hill ranges in Sind and Beloochistan, where prob- 

 ably it feeds on roots and the fruits of Grewia, &c., and honey. 



It had long been maintained that a bear inhabited the hills of 

 Sind and Beloochistan, but till Major Mockler, the Political Resident 

 at Gwadur, obtained several skins on the hills near Mand, nothing 

 positive was known as to its identity. 



It is said to eat flesh occasionally, and Capt. Baldwin, in his ''^ Large 

 and Small Game of Bengal,^' mentions that it is not only a flesh eater, 

 but also a foul feeder, having himself seen one make a meal off* a bullock 

 that had died of disease. 



Fabulous stories as to the habits and propensities of this species 

 for carrying away women and children are repeated by Beloochees. 



ORDER, CETACEA,— The Whale Tribe. 



Aquatic mammals with anterior fin-like extremities, the posterior 

 extremities absent. Body fish-shaped. Teeth all similar, conical, or 

 dissimilar, ridged, sometimes not developed. Skin usually thick and 

 devoid of hair ; ribs much curved, and a very few joined to the sternum, 

 which is short and wide. Two small bones suspended in the flesh near the 

 anus are the only vestiges of posterior extremities ; spiracle or blowhole, 

 single or double. This order comprises the Families Deljphinidoe (Por- 

 poises) and Baloinidce (Whales). 



Family, DELPHINID^.— Cwv. 



Head beaked; teeth numerous, conical in the whole length of the 

 edge of both jaws ; dorsal fin falcate, rarely wanting. 



Delphinus. — Dorsal distinct, medial; rostrum narrow, continued 

 abruptly from the forehead ; teeth 24 — 60 on each side, above and below. 



DelphintJS plumbeus. Buss; Jerdon, Lid., Mam. -p. 157. Steno 

 malayanus. Less. Voy. Gog. t. 9 fig. 5; Gray, Zool., Ereb. and Terror, 43; 

 Gat. Getac. Br. Mils. 232. D. Capensis, Bapp. Cetac. t. 2/. /. (not Gray 

 nor Cuv.) — The Plumbeous Dolphin. 



