
544 RECORDS OF THE S.A, MUSEUM 
Foetus, Port Vietoria, Some details of the skeleton have been gleaned from 
an X-ray photograph, The skull is 41 mm. in greatest length; thus it is more than 
one-fifth of the total length of the animal, relatively much larger than in either 
the adult or ealf. Its downward inclination (sce text fig. 9) is more marked than 
in the adult as figured by Owen (1866, pl. xi, fig. 2). No trace of jugals can he seen, 
One ossification is visible in the cervicals, immediately behind the skull and 
only eleven pairs of ribs are apparent. Posterior to this twenty-six ossification 
centres can be made out along the spinal column. 
ENCOUNTER BAY RECORD! 
Wood Jones (1925, p. 279) stated that in South Australia Kogia ‘‘is 
represented by a lower jaw obtained ....at Encounter Bay. In this lower jaw the 
teeth number thirteen on each side.’’ The mandible referred to by Wood Jones 
has not been located with certainty in the mammalian collections of the South 
Australian Museum, which, at the time of the abovementioned note were being 
investigated by him. Apart from the examples described above, however, the only 
Kogia material in this Institution consists of a lower jaw without data and this 
has fourteen teeth in each ramus, the proximal one being considerably smaller 
than the preceding tooth, 
FOOD. 
The stomach of the adult female from Port Victoria contained only frag- 
mentary remains of prawns, which appear to belong to the genera Peneus and 
Hymenodora. In the stomach of the ealf which, as noted above, was apparently 
still suekling, there were remains of numerous small Cephalopods, beaks, funnels 
and corneas ; the Musenm Conchologist, Mr. B. C. Cotton, identifies these as belong- 
ing to a common South Australian squid, Sepioteuthis australis. 
PARASITES. 
No external parasites were present but the sides of the Port Victoria cow bore 
about sixty circular and semicircular healed sears, apparently the result of previous 
attachment of barnacles. The ealf exhibited a dozen or so of similar, but in general 
smaller, scars. 
Internal parasites of the adult comprised three species of Nematoda, described 
as new by T. Harvey Johnston and Patricia Mawson (Anisakts kogiae, Porrocaecum 
kagiae and Crassicauda magna) as well as eneysted larvae of a Cestode, Phyllobo- 
thrium delphini (Bose)—see Johnston and Mawson, 1959, The calf contained 
only Anisahis kogiae. 
