PROFESSOR OWEN ON INDIAN CETACEA. 17o 



It. in. ft. in. 



Length of dorsal from insertion in front to tip 1 (J 



Breadth of ditto 11 



Lateral measurements. 



Length from snout to insertion of pectoral 1 5 



Length from insertion of pectoral to vent ....;.. 3 7 



JiCngth from vent to centre of caudal 2 3 



7 3 



Inferior measurements. 



Length from snout to vent 5 



Length from vent to centre of caudal 2 3 



7 3 



From snout to eye 11 



Length of gape • ■. . . . 4 



Girth where largest (in front of dorsal) . . 4 i 



Length of pectoral 1 2 



Breadth of caudal 1 10 



Length of vent 7 



Length of small apertures at either side of ditto 2 



" ' Thi.s very remarkable animal does not agree with any known genus or species. 

 The fishermen call it wongu. The snout is rounded and blunt, the mouth, small and 

 placed far below it, the teeth |^.^=20. The eyes considerably above the mouth, and 

 nearly over the termination of or a little behind the gape ; the spiracle before the eyes, 

 situated to the left of the dorsal or central line, obliquely placed as regards its length, 

 slightly curved and the points turning backwards. 



" ' The colour is shining black above, growing gradually paler towards the belly, 

 which is coloured in the drawing from the blood which had flowed over and stained it. 

 The skin is quite smooth. The body in front of the dorsal large and muc'i depressed. 

 Behind the dorsal it becomes smaller and compressed more and more towards the caudal, 

 the latter half (between the dorsal and caudal) being compressed into a sharp ridge, 

 which runs into the base of the caudal fin. 



" ' This was an adult female, from which was taken a single perfect foetus with the 

 same peculiarities as the dam, viz. the diagonal spiracle on the left of the dorsal line, 

 the points curving slightly backwards. The skin of this was stuffed, but was unfor- 

 tunately carried away by a Jackal, when being dried in the garden.' 



"On my return to England eight or nine years afterwards, I showed my drawings to 

 several persons interested in such matters. Those of the mammalia were for some time 

 in the hands of the late Dr. Coldstream, who exhibited them at a meeting of the 

 Natural History Society of Edinburgh. They were subsequently lent to several others 

 in Scotland, among them to a medical gentleman, surgeon to a whaling-vessel, who had 

 paid much attention to cetacea, and who had them in his possession for some time. 



" In the course of these migrations some liberties appear to have been taken witli 

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