CONTENTS. 



XII. On a Specimen of Ziphius recently obtained near Bunedin. By John H. Scott, 

 M.I)., F.R.S.E., and T. Jefpekt Paeker, B.Sc, G.M.Z.S., Professors in the 

 University of Otago, Ketu Zealand. (Plates XLVIII.-L.) . . . page 241 



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The scientific publications of the Zoological Society are of two kinds — " Proceedings," published 

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p , ,o9„ P. L. SCLATER, 



February 1889. „ , ' 



Secretary. 



