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of the middle island of New Zealand, in Stewart's Island, and 

 Chatham Islands. Now, owing to this exterminating warfare, only 

 straggling individuals are met with, and the animal may be said to 

 have deserted the country. Sealers assured me that there was no 

 difference between the Otaria Falklandica and that of New Zea- 

 land, which, however, seems to be very doubtful. Kekino is their 

 native name." Dieffenbach. 



Fam. DELPHINID^E. 



5. New Zealand Dolphin. Delphinus Zelandice, Quoy 



et Gaim., Voy. Astrol., i. t. 28, f. 1, 2. 

 Inhab. Cook's Straits. Dieffenbach. 



6. Grampus, or Killer. Polack, N. Z. ii. 407. Del- 



phinus Orca ? 



Fam. 



7. Sperm Whale. Polack, N. Z. ii. 323; ii. 408. Phy- 



seter Macrocephalus. 



Inhab. New Zealand. Par a Parana, natives ; Tohora, 

 Dieffenbach. 



Varies in colour white, black, ochreous, dingy red, and mot- 

 tled. 



8. Humpback, or Gibbosa. Polack, N. Z. ii. 404. Ba- 



leena gibbosa ? 

 Inhab. New Zealand ? Gregarious. 



9. Physalis, or Fin- Back. Polack, N. Z.i. 323; ii. 405. 



Balsena Physalus ? 

 Inhab. New Zealand ? 



10. Pike-headed Balsena. Po/acA:, N. Z. ii. 405. Ba- 



lsena Boops ? Linn. 

 Inhab. New Zealand ? 



11. Musculus, or Large-lipped Whale. Polack, N. Z. 



i. 323 ; ii. 406. Balsenopterus musculus. 

 Inhab. New Zealand. Common. 



12. Tohora, or Right Whale. Polack, N. Z. i. 323; 



ii. 401. Balcena Antipodum, Gray, N. S. 1. 1. B. 

 Mysticetus, Polack ; Cuv. Oss. Foss. 368, t. 25, ? 

 bones. B. Australis, Desmoulins ? 



