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short of hands just then in the taxidermista department, with two 

 large animáis in course of preparation, I made the specimen over to 

 Dr. Crozier of the Calcutta Medical College. Under that gentle- 

 man's superintendence the entire skeleton has been prepared, which 

 he has kindly made over to the museum of this Society ; but, unfor- 

 tunately, no external part of the animal has been preserved, though 

 Dr. Crozier has made notes of its outward appearance and anatomy, 

 from which he has kindly permitted me to extract the following. It 

 indeed occurred to me that the specimen was of a more leaden black 

 than I had observed in GtLOBicephalus indicus, with the throat 

 and pectoral región conspicuously albescent. 



Dr. Crozier notices it as "a Porpoise 5 ft. long, of a bluish-black 

 or lead-colour over the whole body, a little lighter on the under surface, 

 and a white tinge under the throat and around margin of lips ; a 

 round head, protruding more convex on tip of upper jaw ; blow-hole 

 on upper-part of head, between two rather small eyes ; opening [of 

 the mouth] transverse and concave anteriorly, on posterior margin a 

 row of small teeth of equal size in each jaw ; a pair of long pectoral 

 fins or flippers ; body rather flattened laterally, and along the back 

 a slight groove or depression of skin, which rises to a ridge poste- 

 riorly, on which is scattered a double series of squamce or ossicles 

 recalling to mind those of a Shark. Tail-flukes 17 in. in diameter." 



On dissection, the animal proved to be a fully adult male, with a 

 general resemblance in structure to Phoc^na vulgaris, and others 

 of the great Delphinus series.* 



* Dr. Crozier also dissected the young Globicepiialus indictts obtained by 

 me last year from some fishermen, who caught it in one of the streams conneeted 

 with the salt-water lake E. of Calcutta; its skeleton being now in our museum. 

 He remarks of it — " A Globicephalus 4f ft. long ; with blow-hole single, on 

 upper-part of head, transverse and concave anteriorly ; no external ear or meatus 

 auditorius ; eyes very small, just behind and abo ve the angle of the mouth ; 

 opening oí' eyelids oblong from before backwards ; opening of mouth large, with 

 a thick fleshy soft tongue ; 7 or 8 teeth in each jaw, very small, just appearing 

 above the gums, indioating that the animal had been born only a very short 

 time. The whole of the body is of a dark bluish colour, and the skin covered 

 over with very thin cuticle ; there is a slight constriction between the head and 

 the body ; flippers a good deal elongatecl ; a small dorsal fin about the hinder 

 two-thirds of the length of the body ; tailflnkes large and notched in the cen- 

 tre ; in middle of body a longitudinal umbilical depression." 



Judging from my own recoílection, and also from the stuffed specimen, 9 ft. 

 long, in the Society's muscuin, I should not state the eyes to be " very small," 

 but of the usual size in the JJelpkinidce. In the Susá (Platanista) they are 

 exceedingly minute. In the Globicephalüs of 9 ft., the milk-teeth are consi- 



