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CONTENTS 



MAMMALS 



CHAPTER XXIX. Cetaceans, Order Cetacea. 



General I lharai fcers— Distribution — Habits I tlassification — The Whalebone Whalea(Balcenidm) 

 Right Whales (2?afo»rr)— (Jreenland Whale — Southern Whale — Fossil Species — Pigmy 

 Whale (X'til>nltritii)—Ctivy Whale (/.'A -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 KXX.— Cetaceans,— continued. 



Toothed Whales (Odontoceti). — Distinction between Toothed and Whalebone Whales — 

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

 tinct Sperm-Whales — Lesser Sperm-Whale (Cogia) — Bottlenose- Whale (HyperoSdon) — 

 Cuvier's Whale (Ziphius) — Beaked Whales (Mesoplodon)— Sowerby's Whale — Layard's 

 Whale — Arnux's Whale (Berardiw) — Ancestral Sperm-Whales (Physodontidae) — Fresh- 

 water Dolphins (Platiiiiistidos) — Gangetic Dolphin (Platanista) — Amazonian Dolphin 

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

 Dolphins (Delphinid<e) — The Narwhal (Monodon) — White Whale (Delphinapten l 

 Porpoises (I'hocrena) — Commi m Pi ir] « >ise — Porpoise - Hunting — Indian Porpoise — 

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

 (Orca) — Lesser Killer (Pseudorca) — ~E\a.ckf\sh(Globiocephalus) — Risso's Dolphin (Gran 

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

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

 Species — Bottle-Nosed Dolphins (Twrsiops) — Rough-Toothed Dolphins (Steno) — Long- 

 Beaked River Dolphins (Sotalia) — Chinese Dolphin — Squalodonts and Zeuglodonts 

 (Sqvalodontida and Zeughdontida )...... 



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