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OETAOEA. 

 (ODONTOCETI.) 



PHYSETEKID^. 



PHYSETERID^. 



Genus Ziphius (Cuvier, 1835). 



Generic Character. — Teeth -2_ conical, placed in front of lower jaw, in- 

 clined forwards, of moderate size. Skull with a deep hollow at base of 

 rostrum, into which the nares open, formed by the premaxillaries, and 

 overhung above by the nasal bones. Rostrum tapered, triangular. 



CUVIER'S WHALE. 

 Ziphius cavirostris (Cuvier). 



Ziphius cavirostris, 

 1 Myperoodon gervaisii, 

 ? Epiodon desmarestii, 



CuTiBK, Ossem. Foss., I., 350 (1825). 

 DnvEKNOT, Ann. des Sc. Nat., XV., 49(1851). 

 J. E. Grat, Cat. Seals and Whales, 341 (1866). 



The first occurrence of this very interesting species on 

 the British coasts has lately been recorded by Prof. 

 Turner of Edinburgh, to whose kindness we are indebted 

 for an early copy of his paper in the " Transactions of the 

 Royal Society of Edinburgh " for 1872. 



In 1870 a small Whale was taken off Hamna Voe, on 

 the North-west of the mainland of Shetland, and its 

 skull was purchased, along with other cetacean bones, 

 by Prof. Turner from Mr. J. Anderson of Hillswick. 

 When it arrived in Edinburgh it was still covered with 

 the hardened integuments, but on being cleaned it 

 proved to belong to the species described by Cuvier as 



