Gray.- — Nm) Zealand Cetaceans. 95 



The synonyma will run tlius : — 



Balcena antipodarum^ Gray, Dieffenb. New Zeal., t. 1 (animal). 



Balcena antarctica, Gray, Zool. Erebus and Terror, Get. 16, t. 1 (animal, 

 not Lesson or Owen). 



Caperea antipodartwi, Lilljeborg ; Gray, Cat. Seals and Whales, j». 371 ; 

 SuppL, p. 45 (not ear-bones). 



Baloina antipodarum, Van Beneden, Osteogr. Cet., p. 40, t. 3 (skeleton; 

 ear-bones doubtful). 



The second Black Whale is Madeayhis australiensis, a skeleton of which 

 is in the British Museum, noticed in the Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., 1873, 

 p. 75, and which is described and will be published in the Proc. Zool. Soc. for 

 1873. It was sent from the coast of Canterbury, New Zealand, as Balcena 

 antipodarum, by Dr. Haast. I first thought, from the similarity of the ear- 

 bones, that it w^as the Euhaloina australis, but it is extremely different from it. 

 An account of this skeleton is sent to the New Zealand Institute.* 



3. Megaptera novce-zelandice. 



The whale stranded at Wellington harbour, with "a falcate dorsal," is most 

 probably a Physojlus, for the peculiar character of Megaptera is to have merely 

 a hunch instead of a dorsal fin, and elongate pectoral fins. The ear-bones of 

 Megaptera and Physalus are nearly similar, and, therefoi-e, it is most probably 

 Physalus antarcticus. The colour of the baleen may vary, as the whalers say its 

 character and texture are very different, so distinct that a dealer in these 

 articles can distinguish the baleen of the Finners of the different countries, 

 and they fetch different prices. 

 8. Electra clanctda, Gray. 



I do not know what Dr. Hector's remark refei^s to. Perhaps it does not 

 refer to ray description. I published a description and figure, which Dr. 

 Hector sent to me, in the Ann, and Mag. Nat. Hist., 1872, ix., p. 436, fig. 



10. Gramjyus richardsoni. 

 The number of teeth varies in the different specimens of the European 

 species. 



13. Epriodon clmthamiensis, and 



14. Mesoplodon laya^rdi, 



I have not seen the skull of Epiodon australis^ but as yet I have never 

 seen a species of whale or seal common to the coasts of South America and 

 New Zealand. It may be different with the Cape of Good Hope and Austi-alia 

 and New Zealand, bvit I have seen no decided instance of the same species 

 occurring in two countries ; therefoi'e I can give no decided opinion res])ecting 

 the jaw of Mesoplodon layardi. At the same time, I may observe, the 



* Vide ante Art. XVIT. 



