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of last cervical. Dorsal fin small, falcate, (b) On 3rcl February, 

 1909, I examined at Wanganui a specimen of Kogia breviceps 

 which had been stranded at the Heads a few days before. 

 Length, 180cm.; flipper, 27 cm.; dorsal fin height, 9*5 cm.; 

 distance across flukes, 49 cm. Black above, white below. The 

 accompanying figure was made from a photograph taken at the 

 Heads, where, it was reported, three individuals came ashore. 

 (PI. II. fig. 3.) 



Cook Strait. — («) Port Underwood. Mandible in Dominion 

 Museum, Wellington. Length of ramus, 32 cm. ; breadth at 

 angle, 7*5 cm.; symphysis, 6 cm.; width between rami at base, 

 28*5 cm. Teeth: 14 on right side, 13 on left, (b) Lyall Bay. 

 Cow and calf cast ashore, 1880. (c) Petone, Wellington Harbour. 

 Cow and calf harpooned, 1884. {fJ^ Lyall Bay, 1887. Skeleton 

 in Dominion Museum, Wellington. Teeth 14 . 14. Sternum of 

 three segments. Scapula with broad backwardly - directed 

 acromion and shorter and narrowly-directed coi'acoid, the borders 

 overlapping for the distal half or more. Ribs 12, of which 7 are 

 two-headed. Vertebra : C. 7, D. 12, L. & Ca. 20 + =39 + . 



Lyttelton Harbour. — Female stranded at Governor's Bay, 17th 

 August, 1873, Skeleton and half cast in Canterbury Museum. 

 Exterior and skeleton described by von Haast as the type of 

 Euphysetes pottsii. Teeth 13 in each ramus of mandible. Verte- 

 bra : 'C. 7, D. 12, L. 11, Ca. 20 = 50. Cervicals fused. Ribs 12, 

 of which 6 are two-headed. Sternum of three segments, the 

 first T-shaped. Phalanges ; 1, 10, 7, 5, 4. 



Purakaimi, Otago. — Stranded 23rd August, 1900. Skeleton 

 in Cambridge University Zoological Museum. Descriptions by 

 Benham — exterior and skeleton (1902); exterior and anatomy 

 (Proc. Zool. Soc. 1901, p. 107); larynx (Proc. Zool. Soc. 1901, 

 p. 278). Teeth 13 in each ramus of mandible, 1 on each side of 

 upper jaw. Pelvis absent. Vertebrfe : C. 7, D. 13, L. 9, Ca. 23 

 = 52. Ribs 13 pairs, the very last small, 6 are two-headed. 

 Sternum of 3 segments. Phalanges : R. 2, 10, 7, 6, 3 ; L. 2, 9, 7, 

 6, 2. (Benham.) 



Bekardius. 



Berardius Duverno}^, 1851, Ann. Sci. Nat. ser. 3, vol. xv. p. 51 : 

 type, B. arnuxii Duvernoy. 



This genus comprises two species — one from New Zealand and 

 the Argentine, and the other, B. bairdii, from the North Pacific. 



Berardius arnuxii. 



Berardius arnuxii Duvernoy, 1851, Ann. Sci. Nat. ser. 3, 

 vol. XV. p. 51 (Akaroa, N.Z.) ; Gray, 1866, Cat. Seals & Whales 

 Brit. Mus. p. 348 ; von Haast, 1870, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 4, 

 vol. vi. p. 348; id. 1870, Trans. N.Z. Inst. vol. ii. p. 190; 

 Hector, 1870, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 4, vol. v. p. 222 ; id. 

 1873, Trans. N.Z. Inst. vol. v. p. 169; id. 1878,1. c. vol. x.p 338, 



