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On January 2, 1911, Dr. Wilson saw one of these whales fairly close to the ship, 
and recorded his impressions as follows: ‘This whale was about 30 feet long. Its 
nose was sharp and rorqual shaped, and its dorsal fin like BL. musculus [ie B. 
physalus)|. The pectorals were rather square and quite white. There was a patch of 
white, or yellowish white, on each side running diagonally upwards, abaft the dorsal 
fin.” On January 4, 1911, he says: ‘‘ same species seen to ‘ breech’ and shoot its head 
and shoulders out of the water upside down.” 
The only character in which these whales appeared to differ somewhat from the 
descriptions of B. acutorostrata* was in the slightly greater breadth of the snout. 
Whether these little Rorquals were identical, or not, with the northern Piked Whale, I 
feel convinced that they belonged to the same species as the young Rorqual from New 
Zealand which was described as Balaenoptera rostrata by Dr. Benham,¢ who has kindly 
allowed me to make use of some unpublished photographs of this specimen. (Pls. LV., 
figs. 2 and 3, V.) 
The Norwegian whalers whom I met in New Zealand, and found to be fairly 
shrewd judges of the different species of whales, told me that the “‘ Minkehval,” which 
is their name for &. acutorostrata, is shot off the South Shetlands, during the whaling 
season, for human food. Sir William Turner has recently described a foetus and 
tympanic bone belonging to this species, which were sent to him from the South 
Atlantic.{ Mr. D> G. Stead includes this species in his list of the whales hunted in 
Australian waters.§ 
Linnaeus. (PI. VIL, fig. 1.) 
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* Carte and Macalister, Phil. Trans., 1868, pp. 201-261, Pls. 4-7. Turner, W., Proc. R. Soc. Edinb., 
1891-92, pp. 36-75. ‘True, F. W., “ Whalebone Whales of the Western North Atlantic,’ Smith- 
gonian Contributions to Knowledge, 1904, Vol. XX XIIT., p. 192, Pls. 22-28 and 49. 
+ Benham, W. B., Trans. New Zealand Inst., 1901, Vol. XX XIV., p. 151. 
t Turner, Sir W., Proc. Roy. Soc. Edinb., 1914, Vol. XXXV., Pt. 1 (No. 2, p. 12). 
§ Stead, D. G., “A Brief Review of the Fisheries of New South Wales,” Sydney, 1910. Trivett, 
J. B., Official Year Book of New South Wales Fisheries, 1912. Published 1914. 
|| Or Balaenoptera sibbaldii, Gray. Turner, Sir W., Trans. Roy. Soc. Edinb., Vol. XX VI., 1870, 
pp. 197-251, pls. 5-8. 
