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by the preparators before moulding thus resulting in slight distortion in their 
region. 
I am indebted to Miss Gwen D. Walsh for preparation of most of the drawings 
and photographs illustrating this paper. 
NOTES ON EXTERIOR OF ADULTS AND CALF. 
The colour of both cow and calf from Port Victoria was jet black above and 
on the sides, fading into the white of the underside from back of the mouth to a 
little posterior to the anus. Miss Follett describes the Sleaford Bay example as 
blackish brown above and reddish below but this difference in colouration may 
have been due to post-mortem changes. 

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Fig. 1-2. Dorsal fins of adult female and calf from Port Victoria (14 nat. size). 
Scale drawings of the cow and calf from Port Victoria are reproduced on 
Plate xiv. In size this adult female approaches the largest of the five definitely 
breeding females previously recorded (Allen, 1941, pp. 24-25). 
The body is less than four times as long as greatest depth. The snout is deep 
and blunt, and in front of the mandible it curves forwards and upwards for a short 

Fig. 3-4. Pectoral limbs of adult female and calf from Port Victoria (4 nat. size). 
distance then suddenly rises steeply, with little forward inclination, to a rounded 
dorsal ‘‘point.’’ 
The faleate dorsal fin (text fig. 1) is about three and one half times as long 
as high and is placed just behind the middle of the length. The pectoral limb 
is two and three-fourths times as long as deep (text fig. 3). 
