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the parts of the skeletons more frequently brought under observation, and I 
cannot find that this aspect of the skulls has been anywhere published, I 
have arranged figures of the different species for convenience of comparison 
in Plate No. XI. 
DESCRIPTION OF PLATE XII. 
Fig. 1. Cervical articulation. Fig. 5. iy Vertebra. 
Fig. 2. 8th Vertebra. Fig. 6. 1st Ri 
Fig. 3. 19th. ,, Fig. 7. "cud 
Fig. 4. 38th  ,, Fig. 8. Sternum. 
Globicephalus macrorhynchus. 
Gray, “ Zool. * Ereb. and Terror,’” P. 88 ; ** Cat. Seals and Whales,” p. 
920. Hector, ** Trans. N.Z. Inst.," Vol. IL., p. 28; Vol. V., p. 164; 
Vol. VIL, p. 261., Pl. XVL figs. 1 and 2, (not Pl. XVI.*., which 
is Orca pacifica). Globicephalus scammoni, Cope., ** Proc. Phil. Acad.," 
1869, p. 22. 
Large-headed Pilot Whale, or South Sea Blackfish. 
Only a few skulls of this species were to be found in the European 
collections until Mr. Charles Traill obtained the two individuals at Stewart 
Island in January, 1874, the external characers of which I recorded in a 
former communication. The skeletons of these specimens are now in the 
British Museum, but in January last a school of Blackfish ran ashore in 
Lyall Bay, outside Wellington Harbour, and ten complete skeletons were 
secured. One of them, of a large male, in course of preparation for the 
Colonial Museum, I have now to describe. 
Mr. J. Buchanan, F.L.8., took the accurate drawing shown in Pl. XIIL., 
as it lay stranded on the beach. 
The total length was nineteen feet from the snout to the fork of the 
tail. In form it was cylindrical in the forward part of the body, and com- 
pressed vertically in the posterior portion. The forehead blunt and globu- 
lar, and separated from the snout by a groove. The blowhole situated over 
and slightly in advance of the eye. The dorsal fin rises over the middle 
and thickest part of the body. The anterior limb is elongate and acute. 
The colour was black, but with an ill-defined dark grey streak on each side 
of the back, and a double V-shaped streak along the belly, uniting at the 
vent, and a lighter patch over and behind the eye, but not being in any 
case sufficiently defined to admit of being described as bands. 
It is very doubtful if this species should be separated from G. melas, or 
the common Caaing Whale, of the North Atlantic, an excellent figure of 
which `s given by Dr. Murie, F.Z.S.,+ and certainly no reason has been 
* This figure was crowded out of the preceding Plate, and the wrong name affixed by 
a mistake of the draughtsman 
I" Due Zool. Soe.,” Vol. VILL, Pl. XXX. 
