164 Transactions.— Zoology. 
A very imperfect skull in the Museum from the Swainson collection agrees 
with the above dimensions and characters as far as can be ascertained. A 
large light-coloured porpoise is not uncommon at certain seasons in Blind Bay, 
which may perhaps be this species. 
GLOBIOCEPHALUS MACRORHYNCHUS. 
New Zealand Black-fish. 
G. macrorhynchus, Gray, l.e. 320. 
Teeth È 3 — g) head very much swollen, thick, square, and short; snout blunt; 
teeth, iaia: angles of the lip curved upwards; body clumsy and 
terminates abruptly ; colour uniform black ; skull broad ; beak wide, nearly 
as broad at the middle as at the notch ; intermaxillaries expanded to cover 
nearly the whole upper surface. 
Total length 16 to 20 feet. (Gray.) 
Two skulls in the Colonial Museum, prepared by Dr. F., Knox; length 
26 inches; height of occiput 14 inches ; length of beak 15 inches, and width 
at notch 11 inches. 
Five cervical vertebre anchylosed. 
The Black-fish visit the coast in large schools, and occasionally run into 
shallow bays, where they get stranded, and fall a prey to the natives and 
settlers. They yield from 30 to 35 gallons of inferior oil, but are not killed 
without some risk, as they occasion a sickness or vertigo to those who slaughter 
them, which has sometimes been attended with fatal results. (See Trans. 
N.Z. Inst., I., 44.) 
EPIODON CHATHAMIENSIS. 
Goosebeak Whale. 
PL IV, apd V. 
Beak of skull tapering with a slight upward curve; vomer forming a 
callous ridge, depressed between the intermaxillaries ; upper jaw toothless, 
lower jaw elongate, tapering, bent up and truncate, terminating in two short 
cylindrical teeth, with a sunken dented groove behind them. 
A skull, without styloid processes or tympanic bones, and having the 
sperm cavity laid open, collected by Mr. H. Travers at the Chatham Islands, 
has the following dimensions :— 
Inches. 
Total length, with lower jaw... is i ee 
Width at orbits Le a ne ee 
Width at notch ri na ka 
Height of crest, above aa Se cae en = 10 
