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MAMMALS 



CHAPTEK XXIX. CETACEANS, Order Cetacea. 



General Characters Distribution Habits Classification The Whalebone Whales (Balcenidce) 

 Eight Whales (Catena) Greenland Whale Southern Whale Fossil Species Pigmy 

 Whale (Neobalcena) Grey 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. 



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

 Sperm-Whales and their Allies (Physeteridce) The Sperm- Whale (Physeter) Ex- 

 tinct Sperm-Whales Lesser Sperm-Whale (Cogia) Bottlenose-Whale (Hyperoodon) 

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

 Whale Arnux's Whale (Berardius) Ancestral Sperm- Whales (Physodontidce) Fresh- 

 water Dolphins (Platanistidce) Gangetic Dolphin (Platanista) Amazonian Dolphin 

 (Inia) La Plata Dolphin (Stenodelphis) Allied Extinct Dolphins The Porpoises and 

 Dolphins (Delphinidce) The Narwhal (Monodori) White Whale (Delphinapterus) 

 Porpoises (Phocce.no} Common Porpoise Porpoise - Hunting Indian Porpoise 

 Heaviside's Dolphin (Cephalorhynchus) Irawadi Dolphin (Orcella) Killer, or Grampus 

 (Oreo) Lesser Killer (Pseudorca) ~Blackfish(Globiocephalus) Risso's Dolphin ((rram/ms) 

 Short-Beaked Dolphins (Lagenorhynchus) White-Sided Dolphin Pacific Dolphin 

 White-Beaked Dolphin True Dolphins (Delphinus) Common Dolphin Allied 

 Species Bottle-Nosed Dolphins (Tursiops) Rough- Toothed Dolphins (Stem) Long- 

 Beaked River Dolphins (Sotalia) Chinese Dolphin Squalodonts and Zeuglodonts 

 (Squalodontidce and Zeuglodontidw), ....... 



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