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and the whale moves through its native element, either below or 

 near the surface, with considerable velocity, its jaws being open, 

 whereby a body of water enters its capacious mouth, and along 

 with it the animalculse (termed by the whalemen 'Right Whale 

 feed,' or 'Brit.')"— Beddard.- 



CHIM.ERA OGILBYI, Waif.e. 



Chimcera ogilbyi, Waits, Mem. Aust. Mus., iv., 1899, p. 48, pi. vi. 



Seven examples of this species, all females, were originally taken 

 off Port Hacking and Botany Bay. 



On the 19th July last, an eighth example was brought to the 

 Museum for identification by Mr. A. G. Plate, who found it 

 stranded at Manly; its flesh had been considerably gnawed, pre- 

 sumably by rats, but as its cartilaginous framework was intact, 

 Mr. Plate left it with us. Its skeleton has since been prepared 

 for exhibition in the Museum. 



This specimen was also a female, a circumstance the more to be 

 regretted from the fact that, as I afterwards learned, it was one 

 of three examples caught by some fishermen; after death they 

 were returned to the water, and one, as we may reasonably 

 suppose, was cast up on to the beach at Manly. We usually 

 imagine that the fish lost is finer than the one hooked, so we may 

 grieve to think that at least one of the two examples not recovered 

 might have been a male. 



Prototroctes marina, Giinther. 



(Plate xli.) 



Prototroctes marcena, Giinther, Cat. Pish. Brit. Mus., v., 1864, 

 p. 382. 



In March, 1901, I recorded this species for the first time from 

 New South Wales. ^ The specimen was obtained near Mount 

 Kosciusko, in the upper reaches of the Snowy River. This river 

 joins the ocean in Victorian territory. 



Now, however, I am able to chronicle it from a river wholly 

 within our borders. On October 25th following, the Fishery 

 Commissioners sent for determination an example taken in the 

 Shoalhaven River, near Berry, eighty miles south of Sydney. 



The accompanying figure represents this specimen, from which 

 also the following description is derived. 



B. 7; D. 12; A. 18; V. 7; L. lat. 78; L. tr. 7 + 13. 



Length of head 5-1, height of body 4-2 in the total length. 



Diameter of eye 4*6, and length of snout 3-3 in that of the 



head, equal to the interocular space, which is convex. The head 



is small, conical, and compressed ; the upper jaw is the longer, and 



2 Beddard— A Book of Whales, 1900, p. 131. 



3 Waite— Rec. Aust. Mus., iv., 1901, p 53. 



