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between March and August, 1911; and seventeen were taken during the same 
season in 1912. 
2. Neobalaena marginata, Gray. 
We did not see a single whale which could be certainly determined as belonging 
to this species. Before he left the “Terra Nova,” in January, 1911, the late 
Dr. Wilson came to the conclusion that the whales which he had identified as 
Neobalaena marginata,* when on board the ‘ Discovery ” in 1901-4, were in reality 
a species of Balaenoptera, which I was afterwards able to identify as being 
Balaenoptera acutorostrata, Lacépede. (See page 113.) 
BALAENOPTERIDAE. 
3. Megaptera nodosa, Bonnaterre. Plates I., II?, III., 1V., fig. 4. 
INTRODUCTION. 
During the month of October, 1911, I visited Messrs. Jagger and Cook’s 
Whaling Station at Whangamumu, near the Bay of Islands, New Zealand, and 
through the kindness of the manager, Mr. H. F. Cook, I was able to examine seven 
individuals of the New Zealand Humpback Whale. In the winter of 1912, four 
months (July to October) were spent on board the two Norwegian floating 
factories belonging to the New Zealand Whaling Company, who were also exploiting 
the waters in the neighbourhood of the Bay of Islands. And here again, thanks 
to the extreme courtesy and generous hospitality shown to me by the manager, 
Mr. L. 8. Hasle, and all on board the 8.8. “Rakiura” and 8.V. “ Prince George,” 
I was enabled to investigate some thirty more specimens. 
It will be seen in the account which follows that, after a fairly close study of 
thirty-seven Humpback Whales caught in New Zealand waters, I came to the 
conclusion that they were identical with JJegaptera nodosa, Bonnaterre,f of the 
Northern Hemisphere, and that no evidence was obtained for the existence of the 
two species, Megaptera lalandii, Fischer, § and M. novae zealandiae, Gray. || 
It has been shown by True §J that the Humpbacks of the Eastern and Western 
* Wilson, E. A., op. cit., p. 4. 
+ This name is employed in accordance with True’s paper “ On the Nomenclature of the Whalebone 
Whales of the tenth edition of Linnaeus’s ‘Systema Naturae.’” Proc, U.S. Nat. Mus., Vol. XXTI., 1899, 
pp. 617-635. 
t Or Megaptera longimana, Rudolphi. 
§ MM. Van Beneden et Gervais, “Ostéographie des Cétacés,” 1880 (1868-1879), p. 130. Gray, 
J. E., 1866, Brit. Mus. Cat. Seals and Whales, pp. 126-128. Giglioli, E. H., 1874, Napoli, “ Cetacei 
osservati duranti il viaggio della ‘Magenta,’ ” pp. 30-44. 
|| Gray, J. E., Proc, Zool. Soc., 1864, p. 208. Hector, J., Proc. New Zealand Inst., 1872, Vol. V., 
p- 156; 1877, Vol. X., p. 335. 
q True, F. W., “ Whalebone Whales of the Western North Atlantic,” 1904, Smithsonian Contribu- 
tions to Knowledge, Vol. XXXIII., pp. 211 and 271, Pls. 29-41. See also Collett, R., “ Norges 
Pattedyr,” Kristiania, 1912, p. 606. 
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