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MAMMALS 
CHAPTER XXIX.—Cetaceans,—O rder Cetacea. 
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General Characters—Distribution—Habits—Classification—The Whalebone Whales ( Balcenidce) 
Right Whales ( Balcena )—Greenland Whale—Southern Whale—Fossil Species—Pigmy 
Whale ( Neobalcena )—Grey Whale (Bhachianedes )—Humpback Whale ( Megaptera )— 
Fin-Whales, or Rorquals ( Balcenoptera )—Lesser Fin-Whale—Rudolphi’s Fin-Whale 
-—Common Fin-Whale—Sibbald’s Fin-Whale—Fossil Fin-Whales, ... 1 
CHAPTER XXX.—Cetaceans, —continued. 
Toothed Whales ( Odontoceti ).—Distinction between Toothed and Whalebone Whales— 
Sperm-Whales and their Allies ( Physeteridce )—The Sperm-Whale ( Physeter) —Ex¬ 
tinct Sperm-Whales—Lesser Sperm-Whale ( Cogia )—Bottlenose-Whale (Hyperoodon )—- 
Cuvier’s Whale (Ziphius )—Beaked Whales ( Mesoplodon )—Sowerby’s Whale—Bayard’s 
Whale—Arnux’s Whale (Berardius )—Ancestral Sperm-Whales ( Physodontidce )—Fresh¬ 
water Dolphins ( Platcmistidce )—Gangetic Dolphin ( Platanista )—Amazonian Dolphin 
( Inia )—La Plata Dolphin ( Stenodelpliis )—Allied Extinct Dolphins—The Porpoises and 
Dolphins ( Delpliinidce )—The Narwhal ( Monodon )—White Whale ( Delphinapterus )— 
Porpoises ( Phoccena ) — Common Porpoise — Porpoise - Hunting — Indian Porpoise — 
Heaviside’s Dolphin ( Cephalorhynchus )—Irawadi Dolphin ( Orcella )—Killer, or Grampus 
(Orca )—Lesser Killer ( Pseudorca )—Black t\*l\(Globiocephalus) —Risso’s Dolphin {Grampus) 
—Short-Beaked Dolphins ( Lagenorhynchus) —White-Sided Dolphin—Pacific Dolphin 
—White-Beaked Dolphin—True Dolphins ( Delphinus ) — Common Dolphin—Allied 
Species—Bottle-Nosecl Dolphins ( Tursiops) —Rough-Toothed Dolphins ( Steno) —Long- 
Beaked River Dolphins ( Sotalia )—Chinese Dolphin—Squalodonts and Zeuglodonts 
(Squalodontidce and Zeuglodontidce), ....... 23 
