Hector. — Notes on New Zealand Whales. 



261 



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



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



and Terror. A reduced drawing of this specimen is given in plate XYI., 



fig. 2, its dimensions being as follows : — 



Inches. 



Length ... ... ... ... ... ... 30- 



Length of nose ... ... ... ... ... 15- 



„ tooth series ... ... ... ... 12-5 



„ lower jaw ... ... ... ... 24" 



Width at notch ... ... ... ... ... 8-5 



„ orbit ... ... ... ... ... 15* 



Extreme width — postzygomatic ... ... ... 17* 



Width at middle of beak ... ... ... ... 8-3 



„ of intermaxillaries ... ... ,.. ... 3*3 



Height of crest from occipital foramen ... ... ... 10* 



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



Auckland Museum which have been submitted for determination, 



GLOBIOCBPHALUS MACRORHYNCHUS, Gray. 



Cat. Seals and Whales, p. 320. 

 Blackfish. 



Two complete skeletons, male and female, of this species, were secured 

 by Mr. Charles Traill, on Stewart Island in January, 1874, but are not yet 

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

 external characters : — 



Male. — Colour black, with a narrow strip of light grey running longitu- 

 dinally along the belly, and expanding rather suddenly to form a large 

 caudiform patch of the same colour under the head. 



Total length 



Snout to flippers ... 



dorsal fin, anterior base 

 posterior base 

 tip 

 generative organ 



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Ft. 

 19 



In. 

 



2 



4 



5 



6 



8 



2 



8 



10 



9 



6 



4 



1 



4 



8 



15 







Length of flippers 



Stretch of flukes . . . 



Female — length 



The stomach was filled with the horny beaks of small cuttlefish and a few 

 pearly eyes, probably of the same animal. There are eleven pairs of ribs 

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

 united (?) The pelvic bones are situated about twelve inches below the line of 

 the vertebrae. 



