266 Transactions. — Zoology. 



Art. XXXVI. — DescriiHion of some Plates of Baleen in the Otago Museum. 



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



[Read before the Otago Institute^ 13<7i July, 1874.] 



Inches. 



Length along outer border to gum-line ... ... ... 19 



„ „ „ to sheath of papillae ... ... 21 



„ „ setose margin ••• .. ••• ••• ... 31 



„ „ inner margin to gum-line ... ... ... 2 



„ from mesial point of gum-line to extreme apex ... 25 



Depth of gum ... ... ... ... ... 2 



Width along gum-line ... ... ... ... 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 Balcenoptera sihaldii 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 from the Knohhy Ranges. 



By Captain F. W. Hutton, F.G.S. ; with Anatomical Notes, by Millen 



Coughtrey, M.D. 



Plate XIX. 



[Read before the Otago Institute, \Zth Jidy, 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 toj:). The only covering the bones 

 had was long rank grass growing up around them, and some of them were not 

 covered at all. 



The bones consist of a right metatarsus, with portions of the toes; a 

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

 of a sternum. Judging by the measurements I believe them to belong to 

 Dinomis ingens, Owen. 



