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STUDIES OF TASMANIAN GET ACE A. 

 Part II. 

 i^Z I pli /us ca nrasfris.) 



By 



H. H. Scott (Curator of tlie Victoria Museum, Launces- 

 toii) and 



Olive E. Lord (Curator of the Tasmanian Museum, 



Hobart). 



Plate X. 



(Received IStli June, 1919. Read 14th July, 1919.) 



INTRODUCTION. 



We had contemplated dealing with the genus Tursiojos 

 in the first portion of the present paper, but, owing to 

 several unforeseen circumstances, we propose to place on 

 record certain data compiled in relation to the species 

 Ziphius ca rircixfri.-i before proceeding to deal w^ith 

 Tursiuijs tiirsio as a Tasmanian species. 



ZIPHIUS CAVIROSTRIS, Cuvier. 



For detailed syiionymy see: — 



Grav, Brit. Mus. Cat. Seals and Whales, Epidon, 

 "p. 340 (f mp (1865). 



And for later nomenclature, etc. : — 



True. Bulletin 73, U.S. Nat. Museum, p. 30 

 (1910). 



As with the majority of the Cetacean order, the 

 nomenclature is involved, and the species described are 

 numerous. Fortunately, in this instance it was recognis- 

 ed rather ■ sooner than in others that there was prooably 

 only one species, and that tiiis was practically cosmopoli- 

 tan in distribution. 



Mr. F. W. True has given an excellent account of this 

 species, (i^ and we have pleasure in the present instance 

 in adding tO' the existing knowledge by describing a skull 

 in the collection of the Tasmanian Museum. 



il) True, Bulletin 73, U.S. Xnt. Museum, 1910. 



