MISCELLANEOUS NOTES 277 



dications of extreme juvenility, the foetal structures 

 connected with the placenta being very large. The 

 presumption is, therefore, that the animal was 

 still sucking. 



" The following is a description of this handsome 

 cetacean. The dorsal surface glossy black, with 

 the exception of a somewhat oval and sharply 

 defined patch of white commencing in a point 

 just above the eye and extending backward to 

 above and slightly beyond the posterior insertion 

 of the pectoral limb. This patch of white, or 

 rather cream-yellow (probably owing to discolora- 

 tion of the juvenile skin), was about three times 

 the length of its deepest measurement. The ventral 

 surface of the animal was of the same yellowish 

 white, divided from the black colour of the upper 

 parts by a sharply defined line, very graceful, but 

 difficult to describe, commencing at the point of 

 the rostrum and passing along the upper border 

 of the mouth, from which it was deflected, to and 

 under the flipper (which was black), to within a 

 few inches of the ventral margin of the body, 

 where it continued horizontally till about the 

 centre of the dorsal fin; then taking a sudden 

 bend upwards and backwards till it reached the 



