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iitS) which are at present referred to the same 

 species. The bulk of accounts allow only two grooves 

 meeting, and forming a V-shaped mark upon the 

 throat. But I quote later from another account, and 

 of a New Zealand species or specimen. 



Von Haast's Z. novae zelandiae was originally 

 founded on an " aged female ' twenty-six feet in 

 length, described as being "bluish black on the upper 

 portion of the body, white beneath, the upper portion 

 being marked with numerous oval spots, two to three 

 inches across, like the skin of a leopard." Two 

 additional specimens acquired later* showed that the 

 animal possesses a dorsal fin (which was doubted at 

 first). One of these was a young female, nineteen feet 

 in length ; the other of the same sex, and twenty-one 

 feet in lenoth. The colour is the exact reverse of that 



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first described, being white above and black beneath. 

 The throat has a single fold on each side, and the two 

 teeth stood out half an inch beyond the gums. No 

 smaller teeth were detected. In the larger specimen 

 the teeth were worn down, and could not be felt, but 

 were revealed by incisions. The first animal was 

 scored by numerous lacerations, due, apparently, to 

 fighting among themselves or to attacks from the 

 males. The spots are also healed wounds. 



Messrs. Scott and Parker have described and 

 figured f a young ZipJmis from New Zealand, which 

 differs in several particulars from those just referred 

 to. But they have, perhaps wisely, abstained from 



* "On ZipJiius novae selandiae? Proc. Zool. Soc., 1880, p. 232. 

 t Trans. Zool. Soc., xii., p. 241. 



