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that lime, caused the skeleton to be prepared and to be 
cxjnveyed to Singapore. Owing to lack of space it could only 
be mounted last year (1907), after the new building had been 
opened. The skeleton measures 42 feet. So it is apparently 
not that of a full-grown specimen, as this species is stated to 
attain a length of 80 to 90 feet, U. the size of the Balaenoptem 
sibbaldi of northern seas, the largest of all known animals, 
living or extinct.— Fin whales are not much hunted, as they 
yield only little blubber and their whale bone is of an inferior 
quality. 
The Toothed Whales are represented in the collection 
only by a pair of lower jaw bones of the Cachalot or Sperm 
Whale {Physeler macroa'phaliis), measuring a little o%'er ten feet 
in length. They were recently ( April rgoS ) presented by 
Captain A, Fyfe, of the Sailors' Home. The Sperm Whale is met 
with in almost all tropical and subtropical seas, and full-grown 
males are said to reach sixty feet in length. 
Of porpoises ( Malay name ' Lomba-lomba alor ' ) the 
Museum has the larger Indian Porpoise fOrcelht brevirostiis) 
which ranges from the Bay of Bengal to N. Bornean waters and 
ascends tidal rivers ; and the little Indian Porpoise (NemtwrLs 
phocaemides), ranging from the Cape of Good Hope through 
the Indian Ocean and Malay Archipelago to Japan. 
Of Dolphins one species is exhibited, the Common 
Dolphin or Lomba-lomba sungei {Delphtnus ddphis). It seems 
to occur in all tropical and temperate seas. 
EDEN TAT E S {Edentata), 
The Edentates are the lowest group of Malayan Mam- 
mals. They are represented by one species only, the Pangolin 
of Scaly Ant-eater, the 'Tenggiling' of the Malays LManh 
jmanica), ranging from Indo-China and the Malay Peninsula 
to Sumatra, Java, Borneo and Celebes, Several more species of 
this genus occur in other parts of Asia and in Africa, and the 
Armadillos, Sloths and Ant-eaters of South America belong to 
this order too. None of them have any front teeth, and only 
some of them have back teeth. The Scaly Ant-eater of 
Malaya is entirely toothless, but it has a long and narrow 
and sticky tongue with which it is able to secure the Ter- 
mites or 'White Ants' out of their nests which it first has 
torn open with its powerful claws. The body is covered with 
large overlapping scales which give to the animal the appear 
ance of a huge cone of the sprucc-fir. (sec pi VIII, tig. i.)* 
