STUDIES OF TASMANIAN CETACEA. 



Part IT. 



(Z I ph iitx r(irir(j<fnx.) 



By 



PI. H. Scott (Curator of tlie Victoria Museum, Launces- 

 ton) and 



Ci.rvE E. Lord (Curator of the Tasniauiau Museum, 



Hobart). 



Plate X. 



(Received IStli June, 1919. Read 1 Ith July. 1919.) 



INTRODUCTION. 



We had contemjjlated dealing with the genus Tun^iopa 

 in the first portion of the present paper, but, owing to 

 several unforeseen circumstances, we propose to place on 

 rocoi'd certain data compiled in relation to the species 

 Zi/j/iins rarirasfrii before proceeding to deal with 

 T ursiiips fnrsin as a Tasmanian species. 



ZIPHIUS CAVIROSTRIS. Cuvier. 



For detailed synonymy see: — 



Grav, Brit. Mus. Cat. Seals and Whales, Ejiidmi, 

 'p. 340 ct seq. (1865). 



And for later nomenclature, etc. : — 



True. Bulletin 73, U.S. Nat. Museum, p. 30 

 (1910). 



As with the majority of the Cetacean order, the 

 nomenclature is involved, and the species described ai'c 

 numerous. Fortunately, in this instance it was recognis- 

 ed rather sooner than in others that there was prooably 

 only one species, and that tliis was practically cosmopoli- 

 tan in distribution. 



Mr. F. \V. True has given an excellent account of this 

 species, 'i> and we have pleasure in the present instance 

 in adding to the existing knowledge by describing a skull 

 in the collection of the Tasmanian Museum. 



(1- 'I'lue. Bulletin 73. US Xiit Mu.-euni. 1010 



