CONTENTS 



MAMMALS 



CHAPTER XXIX. CETACEANS, Order Cetacea. 



General Characteristics Distribution Habits Classification The Whalebone Whales 

 (Ba/a>ni(t<z)RightWhales(J3alcena) Greenland Whale Southern Whale Fos- 

 sil Species Pygmy Whale (Ncobalcena) Gray Whale (Rhachianectes) Humpback 

 Whale (Megaptera) Fin Whales, or Rorquals (Balcenoptera) Lesser Fin 

 Whale Rudolphi's Fin Whale Common Fin Whale Sibbald's Fin Whale 

 Fossil Fin Whales, . 



CHAPTER XXX. CETACEANS, continued. 



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TOOTHED WHALES (Odotttoceti). Distinction between Toothed and Whalebone Whales 

 Sperm Whales and Their Allies (Physeter idee) The Sperm Whale (Physeter) 

 Extinct Sperm Whales Lesser Sperm Whale (Cogia) Bottlenose Whale (Hy- 

 pcroodon) Cuvier's Whale (ZipJiius) Beaked Whales (Mesoplodon) Sowerby's 

 Whale Layard's Whale Arnux's Whale (Berardius) Ancestral Sperm Whales 

 (Physodontidce) Fresh-Water Dolphins (Platanistidcz') Gangetic Dolphin (Plat- 

 anistd) Amazonian Dolphin (Into) La Plata Dolphin (Stenodelphis) Allied 

 Extinct Dolphins The Porpoises and Dolphins (Delphinidte) The Narwhal (Mon- 

 odon) White Whale (Delpkinapterus) Porpoises (Phoccena) Common Por- 

 poise Porpoise Hunting Indian Porpoise Heaviside's Dolphin (CephalorJiyn- 

 chus) Irawadi Dolphin (Orcella) Killer, or Grampus (Orca) Lesser Killer 

 (Pseudorca} Blackfish (Globiocephalus) Risso's Dolphin (Grampus) Short- 

 Beaked Dolphins (Lagenorltynchus) White-Sided Dolphin Pacific Dolphin 

 White-Beaked Dolphin True Dolphins (Delpliinus) Common Dolphin Allied ^ 



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