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Show 652 MR. R. S W I N H O E O N CHINESE M A M M A L S . [June 23, been cleaned away. The Formosan Manis is constantly of a much larger size than the South-China animal; and it is not unlikely that on further study it will be found to be distinct. The adult Amoy male above referred to I have placed in the Col-lege- of-Surgeons, and the rest of m y series are in the British Museum. A note on the behaviour of this animal in confinement will be found in the ' Zoologist' for 1858 (I. s. ci). The Manis is not uncommon in many parts of Formosa, is abundant in the neighbourhood of Amoy, Swatow, and southern parts of China, extending to Hainan. How far it ranges north I have not ascertained. CETACEA. 80. DELPHINUS (STENO) CHINENSIS, Osbeck. (South-China White Porpoise.) Delphinus (Steno) chinensis, Flower, Trans. Z. S. vii. part 2, p. 151 ; Swinhoe, Zoologist, 1858, p. 6226. This white Porpoise, which Professor Flower has so ably described (1. ci), is to be seen in all the rivers of South China, and probably extends into the Yangtsze, where white Porpoises occur as far up as Hankow (750 miles from the sea). Above that port, and on to Ichang (1110 miles from the sea), we noticed a smaller and apparently different form, also white in colour. I have been told that black Porpoises occur at the mouth of the Shanghai river, and I have myself seen a school of small black Dolphins at sea north of Amoy (Swinhoe, 'North-China Campaign,' 1860, p. 10); but beyond their occurrence I know nothing more of them. I have never seen Porpoises of any kind off the coast or in the rivers of Formosa. 81. BALANOPTERA SWINHOII. (Swinhoe's Fin-whale.) Balanoptera swinhoii, Gray, P. Z. S. 1865, p. 725. A large Finner-whale was cast on the sands of Formosa two miles below the port of Takow in 1862. In 1864 I collected all the bones of it that remained, and sent them to the British Museum. On view of these, Dr. J. E. Gray has established this species. Since then some more remains have been collected and sent home. This Whale resorts to the Hainan seas in winter, where the Chinese pursue it for the oil it yields. In summer it occurs in the Namoa straits and off the Port of Swatow. A party of Americans thought to establish a fishery at Swatow, but after one or two captures they gave up the scheme. They found the Whale useless for their purposes. 82. ? MEGAPTERA KUZIRA (Temm. & Schl.). (South-China Small Finner.) One day at Takow in March 1865 I was roused by the cry of " Hai-yang " (or Whale), and heard that one had just been stranded. I crossed the harbour and made for the spot. On the road I met several parties of Chinamen returning laden with portions of the poor monster. On arriving at the spot I found little left beside the jaw and a part of the back ; and even these were being hacked and |