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on the crest ; close examination however showed that its hair, including the 

 crest, was not more than about 1 inch in length. This is very unusual, as I 

 hav^e seen a lot of wild pig both stuck and shot. The pig did not appear to 

 be suffering from mange or any other disease. I wonder if any other 

 member has ever come across a similar case ? 



Last April I shot a boar which was somewhat bare about the body, but 

 had a lot of hair on its back and a very big crest. The animal first 

 mentioned was about 5 years old and measured as follows : snout to base 

 of tail (straight) 47", tail 12", height 28". 



According to the natives of these parts there are two varieties of pig, 

 which can be recognised both in the wild and the village pig : first variety 

 is called Baseelwa, second variety Moonar. The differences are as follows : — 

 Baseelwa have a very long skull with long snout and are thin and not 

 broad. The Moonar has a short skull with a short suffy snout and is 

 stouter and very broad. There are no differences in colour- or height, but 

 the pregnancy in the Baseelwas is said to last for six months, while that of 

 the other variety is a month less. 



1 send this note as another member has brought to notice that two 

 varieties are noted in his district and also because one of the wild pig skulls, 

 (female), which I presented to the B. K. H. S. Mammal Survey was very 

 elongated. 



O. A. SMITH, Major. 

 Hazaribagh District, IQth October 1914. 



No. IV.— NOTE ON A STRANDED GEEAT INDIAN FIN WHALE 

 {BAL^NOPTERA INBICA) AT RATNAGIRI. 



( With a Plate.) 



A whale was washed ashore at Dhabool, 97 miles south of Bombay. It 

 was first noticed on Wednesday morning, 11th December and I saw it on 

 Saturday afternoon, the 14th. The Customs Karkun informed me that the 

 animal was lying on its back stomach upwards, but when I first saw it the 

 carcass had turned half over on to its side. It was only visible at low tide, 

 being under water when the tide was in. I took the following measure- 

 ments : — 



Total length (tip of snout to tip of flukes) . . 41 ft. 

 Tip of snout to angle of mouth . . . . 9 ft. 



Do. to blowholes . . . . . . 8'-7" 



Length of flipper . . . . . . , . . . 4'-5" 



Width of flipper at base l'-7" 



Eye to flipper . . . . . . . . . . 4'-5" 



Base of tail to posterior end of dorsal fin . . 6'-8" 



Dorsal fin height 2'-3" 



„ „ base l'-2" 



Flukes tip to tip . . . . . . . . . . 9 f t 



Breadth from notch of flukes to angle with body. 2'-0" 

 The animal was too far decomposed for any accurate idea of the actual 

 colour to be obtained most of the epidermis having pealed off, but such as 

 was left was slate grey in colour, while the flippers were very much darker 

 almost black. The inside of the moiith was a dirty yellowish- white. The 

 Karkun, who saw the animal when it was on lying on its back, said that the 

 stomach was whitish, while he described the sides as greyish-black and the 

 mouth parts pink. 



The sides presented a fluted appearance with parallel lines running along 

 the flanks beginning well behind the flippers and terminating close to the 

 mouth. The animal was a male. 



