240 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [November, 1905. 
General Characters of the Trunk and Limbs— 
The general form differed very considerably from that of all 
Cetacea, resembling that of some of the larger Hared Seals in 
several points. The appearance of the animal was clumsy, and 
evidently not adapted for rapid motion of any kind, the back and 
sides being rounded and the belly flat. There was no apparent 
neck, but the head was massive and terminated bluntly in front. 
latter organ was deficient as regar 
been removed, probably by the bite of a shark. The wound had 
lete 1 
externally. y the fore-arm projected externally, the humerus 
being buried in the body as far as the articulation of the radius and 
Ina, ere was a conspicuous fold of skin immediately above the 
mounted, in the Colombo Museum, this elongated character of the 
mamme is characteristic of both sexes. The lateral position 18 
_ apparently characteristic of all living Sirenia. Native fishermen 
a ; 
The copulatory organ, of which Dr. Francis H. A. Marshall, of 
the University of Edinburgh, has kindly promised to furnish ® 
description later, was entirely withdrawn into the body. 
Head— oie 
The head of the Dugong is perhaps its most characteristi¢ 
feature, but all the figures of the animal, including some very 
rece i 
adult males. The only mounted specimens I have seen W 
are at all correct are those in the Colombo Museum ; but these 
half-grown male and a newly Sagar! gud 
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airly well with my notes and photographs. ; 
The mouth of the specimen was very small. It was tightly 
closed by the upper lip (‘upper jaw pad”) which projected over 
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hairless on the surface. usks, one of which was bro 
projected through the skin above it, not from the mouth, as has 
