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been cleaned away. The Formosan Manis is constantly of a much 
larger size than the South-China animal; and it is not unlikely that 
on further study it will be found to be distinct. 
The adult Amoy male above referred to I have placed in the Col- 
lege-of-Surgeons, and the rest of my series are in the British Museum. 
A note on the behaviour of this animal in confinement will be 
found in the ‘ Zoologist’ for 1858 (J, s. ¢.). 
The Manis is not uncommon in many parts of Formosa, is 
abundant in the neighbourhood of Amoy, Swatow, and southern 
parts of China, extending to Hainan. How far it ranges north I 
have not ascertained. 
CETACEA. 
80. De.eHinus (STENO) cCHINENSIS, Osbeck. (South-China 
White Porpoise.) 
Delphinus (Steno) chinensis, Flower, Trans. Z. 8. vii. part 2, 
p- 151; Swinhoe, Zoologist, 1858, p. 6226. 
This white Porpoise, which Professor Flower has so ably de- 
scribed (7. c.), is to be seen in all the rivers of South China, 
and probably extends into the Yangtsze, where white Porpoises 
occur as far up as Hankow(750 miles from the sea). Above that port, 
and on to Ichang (1110 miles from the sea), we noticed a smaller 
and apparently different form, also white in colour. I have been 
told that black Porpoises occur at the mouth of the Shanghai river, 
and I have myself seen a school of small black Dolphins at sea north 
of Amoy (Swinhoe, ‘ North-China Campaign,’ 1860, p. 10); but 
beyond their occurrence I know nothing more of them. I have never 
seen Porpoises of any kind off the coast or in the rivers of Formosa. 
81. BaAL@/NopTERA swinHol!. (Swinhoe’s Fin-whale.) 
Balenoptera swinhoti, Gray, P. Z. S. 1865, p. 725. 
A large Finner-whale was cast on the sands of Formosa two miles 
below the port of Takow in 1862. In 1864 I collected all the bones 
of it that remained, and sent them to the British Museum. On view 
of these, Dr. J. E. Gray has established this species. Since then 
some more remains have been collected and sent home. This Whale 
resorts to the Hainan seas in winter, where the Chinese pursue it for 
the oil it yields. In summer it occurs in the Namoa straits and off 
the Port of Swatow. A party of Americans thought to establish a 
fishery at Swatow, but after one or two captures they gave up the 
scheme. They found the Whale useless for their purposes. 
82. ?MrcarreraA KuziIRA (Temm. & Schl.). (South-China 
Small Finner.) 
One day at Takow in March 1865 I was roused by the ery of 
*‘ Hai-yang’’ (or Whale), and heard that one had just been stranded. 
I crossed the harbour and made for the spot. On the road I met 
several parties of Chinamen returning laden with portions of the 
poor monster. On arriving at the spot I found little left beside the 
jaw and a part of the back; and even these were being hacked and 
