Hector— Notes on New Zealand Whales. 



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Gray in the Proceedings of the Zoological Society, 1870, p. 76. It, however, 



agrees well with the figure of Orca capensis given in the Voyage of the Erebus 

 and Terror. 



fig. 2, its dimensions being as follows : 



A reduced drawing of this specimen is given in plate XVI., 



Length 

 Length of nose 



• • • 



5? 



JJ 



tooth series 

 lower jaw 



Wid th 



v 



orbit 



Extreme width — postzygomatic 

 Width at middle of beak 



?> 



of intermaxillaries 



H 



• • « 



• • 



• • • 



9 • 



• • 



• • 



• . - 



t t 



■ 9 



* • * 



■ * 



Inches. 

 30- 



15* 



12-5 

 24- 

 8-5 

 15- 



17- 

 8-3 

 3-3 



10- 



A lower jaw of this same species is among the specimens from the 

 Auckland Museum which have been submitted for determination. 



GLOBIOCEPHALUS MACRORHTNCHUS, Gray. 



and Whales 



Blackfish. 



skeletons 



Mr. 



prepared. From Mr. Traill's letter I gather the following notes of their 

 external characters : 



Male. 

 dinally al 



caudiform 



runn: 



belly, and expanding rather suddenly to form a large 



length 



• t 9 



• * 



9 19 



• 9 



Ft. 



19 



In. 

 



Snout to flippers 



• « 



• t • 



ft • 



• • ft 



* 9 



99 



>? 



>J 



99 



dorsal fin, anterior base 



posterior base 



• • • 



» 



>> 



• 9 9 



tip 



• • 



generative organ 



• ft 9 



9 ft 



Length of flippers 

 Stretch of flukes 



9 9 



9 • 



9 • • 



ft • ft 



• ft • 



9 9 9 



9 9 



Female 



length 



9 ■ • 



• • 



ft • • 



• 99 



2 4 



5 6 



8 2 



8 10 



9 6 

 4 1 

 4 8 



15 



horny 



am 



and fifty-eight vertebrae ; the cervical vertebrae — seven in number 



ks of small cuttlefish and a few 

 There are eleven pairs of ribs 



•being 



united (?) 



below 



vertebrae 



