274 Catalogue of Mammalia inhabiting [No. 172. 



CETACEA. 



Herbivora. 



Gen. — Halicore, Illiger. 



Halicore Indicus, F. Cuvier. 



Syn. — Dugon, Buffon. 



Trichechus Dugong, Erxleben. 



Halicore cetacea, Illiger. 



Halicore Dugong, Cuvier, apud Raffles. 



Halicore Tabernacularum, Ruppell. 



Dugungus marinus, Tiedemann, apud Schinz. 



"Duyong" or " Parampuan Laut" of the Malays of the Penin- 

 sula. 

 Hab. — Singapore, Malayan Peninsula. 



Sumatra, Philippine, Molucca and Sunda Islands, New Holland, 



Red Sea. 



The Duyong appears not to be numerous at Singapore, still less so 



to the northward, and has but in few instances been observed in Kwala 



Muda, the mouth of the river, which forms the northern boundary of 



Province Wellesley. 



Ordinaria. 



Gen. — Delphinus, Linne. 



Delphinus plumbeus, Dussumier. 



Syn. — Delphinus malayanus, Lesson, apud Cuvier. 



" Parampuan Laut" of the Malays of the Peninsula. 

 Hab. — Coasts of Pinang. 



Malabar Coast. 

 The species, although very numerous, and rather heavy in its move- 

 ments, is rarely captured, except by chance in fishing stakes. The 

 stomach, of a single young individual observed, contained remains of 

 small fishes, apparently Clupea, and Glyphisodon ctelestinus, Cuvier. 



