216 PROFESSOR FLOWER ON THE RECENT ZIPHIOID WHALES. 
ft. in. 
Total lengthy $4 4° 3. ore le eee eel, 
From beak to nostrils 3 6 
From nostrils to occipital foramen . 1 6 
Total length [of head ?] over vertex : ‘ 5 0 
Head.—Tip of beak to occipital foramen, ‘yaaa een 4 0 
Greatest height 2 0 
Length of lower jaw . 3 10 
Length of symphysis . 0 
Breadth between condyles . 1 10 
Breadth at symphysis 0 6 
The skull, the cervical vertebra, scapula, and imperfect pectoral limb of this animal 
are preserved in the Museum at Wellington, and have been figured on a reduced scale 
in the Transactions of the New-Zealand Institute, vol. iii. Although there was but a 
single tooth on each side of the lower jaw, near the apex, the skull in form and size so 
closely resembles that in the Paris Museum, that it is difficult to believe that they are 
not specifically identical. 
Though no complete description of the portions of this animal which were preserved 
has yet been published, the following paragraph relating to it by Dr. James Hector, 
F.R.S., is important:—“The preparation of the nose (figures 4a & 46) shows that, 
notwithstanding this is a full-sized animal, the tooth is still sheathed in the gum, 
being imbedded in a tough cartilaginous sac, which adheres loosely in the socket of 
the jaw, and is moved by a series of muscular bundles that elevate and depress it”* 
The dimensions of the skull are thus given by the same naturalist :— 
inches, 
henpth; of bead yriaken 42a de ial Ale oe -adasAl > ete tie on 
Length ofmose Jo 295 A Bak Sollimeeaurnd iia guess spilt ee 
Length of ‘dental: groove...) in Py i lle ee 
Leneth of lower jaws 7s" sadist oe eee te ee eee 
Width: of notelt sos 5 ¢a:g nee a) Se ee a a aes 
"Wikethvatorbiig:. 4..<9 it bade So fetlcaat + 5dsontuuets GRA ee 2 pee 
Width at. blow-holes .....-., 5.25 «nth STAD wiebO ero 3) 
Width af nose.) +, <.. so. ee ust ei noe a Reem 2D 
Height of occiput |; 2 “hE Y, ee ae ae er ee ae Ls 
1 Trans. New-Zealand Institute, 1870, vol. iii. p. 129. 
2 This is evidently a mistake, as it is far too large for the other dimensions. According to the figure it should 
be 47°5. 
3 The smaller specimen, 9 feet 3 inches in length, which was described in the 2nd vol. of the Trans. N.-Z, 
Inst. (p. 27) under the name of Berardius arnuxii, and which has since been named by Dr. Gray Berardius 
hectori (Ann, & Mag. Nat. Hist. August 1871), belongs, as above mentioned, to a different section of the 
group. 
