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colour of tin.' animal is -ivy. curiously marked with scratch-like 

 lines, which arc probably caused by the cuttlefishes which form the 

 staple food of the grampus." In a pamphlet published in 1!>11 

 by James Cowan on '' Pelorus Jack" it is stated that "he is a 

 dolphin of a bluish-white colour, tinged with purple and yellow, 

 and with irregular brown-edged scratch-like lines covering the 

 rpper surface of his body. His flippers are dark in hue, mottled 

 with grey. He is about 14ft. in length as nearly as can be 

 judged, for he doesn't stay still very long and he is blunt of 



FIG. 8. PELORCS JACK, A FAMOIS DOLPHIN. 



humped of forehead, with a high falcate (or scythe-shaped) 

 dorsal tin and a narrow fluked tail." By an Order in Council of 

 the 29th September. 1 !><M. it is notified that for live years from 

 that date it would not In- lawful for any person " to take the tish 

 or mammal of the species commonly known as Kisso's Dolphin 

 ((I'l-fini/ntx (/r/.-if n.<} in the waters of Cook Strait, or of the bays, 

 sounds, and estuaries adjacent thereto." Any person committing 

 a breach of this regulation was liable to a fine of not less than ."i 

 nor more than 100. This regulation \\as renewed from time to 



