in the Colonial Museum^ Wellington^ Neio Zealand. 223 



One small tooth imbedded close to tip of lower jaw on left 

 side, '1 inch high, weight 38'8 grains, irregular triangular shape. 



This is the skull of a young animal. A groove containing 

 a strong ligament connecting the muscle of the forehead with 

 the snout is deeply imbedded in the intermaxillary groove. 

 The snout is described as long and flexible. Atlas and axis 

 anchylosed. Length of cervical group 3*7 inches. Scapula, 

 longitudinal diameter 10 inches, transverse diameter 6 inches. 

 Paddles, length 14 inches, width 3^ inches. Hyoid arch 

 5*5 X 4 inches high. Pelvic bones 2| inches. 



The specimen was cast on the beach on the west coast, and 

 prepared by Dr. Knox. 



[This animal, which is at present unknown in Europe, and 

 therefore very desirable to procure, does not appear to be un- 

 common in New Zealand. There is a skull, obtained in 1846, 

 in the Museum at Paris. — J. E.G.] 



" A fine specimen oi Berardius Arnuxii has been cast ashore 

 on the coast of Canterbury, New Zealand. It was made into 

 a skeleton, which is now in the museum at Canterbury. The 

 skeleton is complete, only wanting one of the pelvic bones. 

 It was 30 feet long, and a young animal ; not a single epi- 

 physis is anchylosed. The cervical vertebrffi, which in the 

 old animal evidently form a compact mass, are still partly 

 free ; the first three vertebras (including the atlas) anchylosed, 

 and of these the first two completely, and of the 2nd and 3rd 

 the neural arches are as yet not completely united into one 

 bone. It has ten ribs." — Julius Haast. 



4. Lagenorhynclms clanculus^ Grray, ibid. p. 271. 



Complete skeleton. 



Length 5 feet 1 inch. 

 Cervicals seven, anchylosed, 1*3 inch. 

 Dorsals fourteen, 11 '5 inch. 



Lumbar and caudal forty-eight, thirty -four of which have 

 processes and may be considered lumbars. 



SkuU : — inches. 



Length, total 14 



Length of beak 7'5 



Width at notch 3-5 



,, orbit 6 



Intermaxillary at blow-hole 2*7 



Middle of beak 2-5 



Height at occiput 5-7 



Length of flappers 12 



Scapula, longitudinal diameter Q'b 



., transverse ,, 4*5 



