2G6 Transactions. — Zoology, 



Art. XXXVI. — Description of some Plates of Baleen in the 



By Captain F. W. Hutton, C.M.Z.S. 



[Read before the Otago Institute, 13th July, 1874.] 



Length along outer border to ~"™ K *"* 



» jy » to sheath of papillae 



„ „ setose margin 



„ „ inner margin to gum-line ... 



„ from mesial point of gum-line to extreme apex 



Depth of gum 

 Width 



••• ••• • • t 



« • • 



Inches. 



19 

 21 

 31 



2 

 25 



2 

 18 



Setae 5 to 12 inches in length, longer on the setose margin than at the 

 apex. Colour black ; texture wavy. 



Inside these there are five or six rows of accessory plates decreasing in 

 size and strongly setose. 



Dr. Coughtrey informs me that it is very similar in appearance to the 

 baleen of Baloznoptera sibaldii of the Arctic seas. 



The whale to which these belonged came ashore near Coal Point, on the 



south-east coast of Otago, in 1873. I was informed that it measured 109 feet 

 in length. 



Art. XXXVII. — Description of some Moa Remains f> 



Hutton, F.G.S. ; with Anatomical Notes, bv Millen 



M 



Plate XIX. 



[Read before the Otago Institute, 13th July, 1874.] 



The remarkable remains of the Moa which I have to describe were found 

 by G. E. Allen, Esq., of Hawkdun Station, on the 4th of June last, on 

 Messrs Campbell and Low's Galloway Station, Manuherikia district, in a 

 crevice among mica-schist rocks, and were liberally presented by him to the 

 Otago Museum. 



Mr. Allen informs me that the crevice in question was two or three feet 

 broad, five or six feet deep, and open at the top. The only covering the bones 



rank grass 



covered at all. 

 The bones 



~v ^wuw^ouo, yviwi portions oi tne toes; a 



fragment of the left metatarsus ; a right tibia ; a left femur ; and a fragment 



sternum 



Dinornis ingens, Owen. 



believe 



