Sakam kuzira, . . JAPAN.
Found off the coast of Japan.
(d) Grampus Sieboldii.
Naiso Bata, . . JAPAN.
A native of the coasts of Japan.
(e) Grampus macrorhynchus, black fish of the South Sea whalers ; it inhabits the South Seas.
(f) Delphinapterus Peronii, right whale por poise of whalers. It is found on the. Brazil bank, off the coasts of New Guinea, and the higher southern latitudes. It lives in large shoals, and its flesh is esteemed a delicacy. It is black ; but the beak, the pectoral fins, and under part of the body are white.
(g) Delphinus. — Seafaring people call the species of this genus bottle-nose, bottle-head, flounder-head, grampus, porpoise, porpesse, or porpus, sometimes even whale, and give the name of dolphin to the Coryphaena, a scomberoid fish which changes colour when dying. There are several species of Delphinus :— (h) Delphinus Heavisidii, the hastated dolphin, inhabits the South Sea and Cape of Good Hope.
(i) Delphinus obscnrus, the dusky dolphin, inhabits the Southern Ocean and Cape of Good Hope.
( j) Delphinus abusalam inhabits the Red Sea. (k) Delphinus eutropia inhabits the Pacific Ocean and Chili.
(/) Delphinns Novi Zealandke, the New Zealand dolphin, inhabits New Zealand and Cape Gable.
(na) Delphinus Forsteri, Forster's dolphin, in habits the Pacific Ocean between New Caledonia and Norfolk Island.
(n) Delphinus sao inhabits Madagascar.
(o) Delphinus longirostris, the Cape dolphin, inhabits the seas about the Cape of Good Hope and the Southern Ocean.
(p) Delphinus perniger, Elliot, Blyth, the black dolphin, Bay of Bengal.
(q) Delphinus plumbeus, Dussumier, the plum beans dolphin of the Malabar coast.
(r) Steno attenuatus, Gray.
(s) Steno Malayanus.
Delphinus plumbous, 1 I Delphinus Malayanus, sum ier, Our. Lesson spud Ouv. Parampuan,LAuT,MALsv. I Dolphin vcntre roux of Paris Museum.
Inhabits the Malabar coast and coasts of Penang. It is numerous, and rather heavy in its movements, but is rarely captured, except by chance in the stake-nets. It cats small fishes, Clupea and Gly phisidon ccelestiuus, Cuv.
(i) Steno frontatus inhabits the Indian Ocean and the Pacific.
(u) Platanista Gangetic& D. rostratus, Shaw. I Delphinus Shawensia, Blaintille.
Platanista, . . . Pliny. I Sou•sou, . . . INDIA.
DauphineduGange,T.Cuv. Susa, . . . Buffon.
Inhabits the Ganges and Irawadi.
(v) Platanista Indi, Blyth, the porpoise of the Indus, larger and more robust than P. Gangetica.
(w) Halicore dugong.
Trichechus dngong, Gmel. I Dugungus Indicus, Ham. Indian Dugong, . ENG. I Le dugong des Iudes, Fa.
Inhabits the shallows of the Indian Ocean and about Ceylon, where the water is not more than two or three fathoms deep. It does not appear to frequent the land or the fresh water. Its flesh is delicate. The dugong was noticed as occurring in Ceylon by the early Arab sailors, by Megasthenes (Fragm. lix.) and Xlian, and subse quently by the Portuguese. It is this creature which has given rise to the tales about mermaids which have till the present day occupied the world, and doubtless had their origin in the tales of the Arab sailors. They are phytophagous or plant-eaters.