THE 
GANGETIC DOLPHIN, 
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Generic Character. 
'1 eeth in both jaws. 
Spiracle on the head. 
Specific Character, &c. 
CINEREOUS DOLPHIN, with lengthened 
snout. 
GANGETIC DOLPHIN. 
Narrow-Snouted INDIAN DOLPHIN. 
The species of Dolphin represented on the present 
plate is occasionally observed in great multitudes in 
the river Ganges, and is known in India by the name 
of Soosoo. Its general length is about twelve feet, 
and its colour cinereous, paler beneath : the jawg are 
remarkably long and slender, and in each jaw arc 
sixty teeth. This animal seems to have been first dis¬ 
tinctly described by Dr. Roxburgh in the seventh 
volume of the Asiatic Researches. 
