Supplement to the catalogue of seals and whales in the British Museum

by John Edward Gray

B.M.

Orcaella brevirostris, Gray, l. c. p. 285; Synops. Whales & Dolph. p. 7; Anderson’s Icon. ined. (animal and skull).

Phocæna brevirostris, Owen, Trans. Zool. Soc. vi. t. 9.

Globiocephalus indicus (part.), Blyth.

Black; body stout; dorsal fin subcentral.

Inhab. Estuaries of the Ganges (Dr. Anderson); Madras (Elliot).

2. Orcaella fluminalis.

Orcaella fluminalis, Anderson’s MS. & Icon. ined.

Dolphin of the Irawady, Anderson, P. Z. S. 1870, pp. 220, 544.

“Body slender, dirty white; dorsal fin more posterior.”