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Francisco, and which I have reason to think was that of the whale referred to 
in Professor Cope’s description ; but only a very cursory examination could 
be made of this skeleton while I was packing it for transmission to the 
British Museum, where it is now deposited. 
5.—DALJENOPTERA HUTTONI. 
Balenoptera huttoni, Gray ; Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., XIII., 450. 
Physalus antarcticus, Hutton ; Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., XIII, 316.. 
This is the pike whale of the southern seas and is hardly distinguish- 
able from the northern Balenoptera rostrata, The genus Balenoptera is 
here restricted to the small rorquals, which have less than 50 vertebre and 
11 pairs of ribs. The type of B. huttoni is in the British Museum, but was 
not mounted when I examined it. The second and third cervicals show 
marks of adhesion, and specimens of these vertebrs in the Colonial Museum 
are as firmly anchylosed as in B. rostrata. 
6. PuyseTER MACROCEPHALUS, Linn. 
Catodon australis, Gray ; Cat. S. and W., 206; Hector, Trans. N.Z. Inst., V., 158. 
Meganeuron krefftii, Gray ; Cat. S. and W., 387 
Catodon colneti, Gray ; Cat. Cetac. B.M., 62. 
Physeter polycyphus, Q. and G. ; Uran. Mamm., t. 12. 
The sperm whale is ubiquitous in warm seas and occasionally roams into 
high temperate latitudes. It is represented in almost every museum by 
fragmentary or complete skeletons presenting variations due to age, but 
there appears to be no ground for distinguishing more than one species 
which has the name originally given by Linneus. 
7. KOGIA BREVICEPS. 
Physeter breviceps, De Blainville; Ann. d'Anat. et de Physiol., 1838, IL, 337. 
Kogia breviceps, Gray; Cat. B. M. Cetacea, 1850, p. 53. 
Physeter simus, Owen ; Trans. Zool. Soc., VI., 30. 
Euphysetes grayi, Macleay; Gray, Supp. Cat. S. and W., 392. 
Kogia macleayi, Gray ; Cat. S. and W., 218. 
Euphysetes macleayi, Krefft; Proc. Zool. Soe., 1865. 
Euphysetes pottsii, Haast; Trans. N.Z. Inst., VL, 97. 
? Kogia floweri, Gill; Amer. Nat., IV., 738. 
This very remarkable and diminutive form of the Physeteride has pro- 
bably a similar range to the sperm whale, but only one instance is recorded 
of its occurrence north of the equator. Professor Gill describes a specimen 
from Mazatlan on the coast of Mexico, which is probably the same species. 
The other specimens have been taken in the seas off the Cape, Australia, 
and New Zealand, and there does not appear to be any reason for making 
several distinct species, as the only complete skeletons agree in all 
essential characters, 
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