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Mammals of Burma. 



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Order CETACEA. 



Fam. Delphinidae. 



Dolphins and Porpoises. 



73. Oecella fluminalis. 



Orcella fluminalis, Anderson, P. Z. S. 1870, pp. 220, 544 ; 1871, pi. 43, fig. 2. 

 La-boing (Mason). 



The Irawadi Dolphin, inhabiting the deep channels of the river from 

 300 to 600 miles from the sea. Colour uniform dirty white. 



Fam. Balsenopteridse. 

 Rorquals. 



74. Bal^noptera indica (J. 147). 

 Balanoptera indiea, Blyth, J. A. S. B. vol. xxviii. p. 488. 



Indian Eorqual. A specimen eighty-four feet in length was cast upon 

 Juggoo or Amherst Islet, South of Eamri, and East of Cheduba, on the Arakan 

 coast, in 1851 : another was stranded on the Chittagong coast in 1842, said 

 to have been ninety feet long and forty-two feet in circumference* Whale 

 Bay, in the Mergui archipelago, was so named by Captain B. Lloyd, "from 

 the circumstance of its being resorted to by numerous Whales,"! it being 

 the only part of the coast where he had seen them. 



Order PEOBOSCIDEA. 



Fam. Elephantidae. 

 75. Elephas indicus (J. 211). 

 Mephas indicus, Linn.; Eseu, Mason; Chang, Siamese. 



The Asiatic Elephant. The Elephant of Sumatra, and also that of 

 Ceylon is considered by Professor H. Schlegel to be a peculiar species, E 

 sumatranus, Schlegel ; but the late Dr. Falconer did not admit of the alleged 

 distinctions, and a large living male Sumatran Elephant in the Zoological 

 Gardens of Amsterdam, as also a half-grown one in that of Eotterdam, are 

 certainly not to be distinguished by any external character from the ordinary 

 Indian Elephant. 



* Noted in J. A. S. B. xxi. p. 414, and xxviii. p. 482. 

 t ibid. vii. p. 1030, and map. 



