CUVIER'S WHALE 
chiefly of squids, the flanks of the animal were marked with various lines 
and scratches caused by the tentacles of these creatures. In life the 
colour of the light parts of the head and shoulders was probably a purer 
white, as Mr. W. P. Pycraft, to whom I am indebted for many useful 
notes on the cetaceans, tells me that he once observed two Cuvier's Whales 
in the sea off the Wexford coast, and while watching them from above 
was struck with the shining whiteness of the head and shoulders as the 
animals moved through the clear water. According to Sir Sidney Harmer's 
Report on Cetacea Stranded on the "British Coasts during 191 6, an example 
of this species occurred on the Cornish coast on June 7th of that year. 
Cuvier's Whale has an extremely wide distribution, roving from the 
British coasts and those of the Mediterranean through the Atlantic, Indian, 
and Pacific Oceans to New Zealand, where it has been obtained on several 
occasions. A young New Zealand Ziphius, described by Messrs. Scott and 
Parker in the Transactions of the Zoological Society, vol. xii., was coloured 
brown on the sides of the head and purple black on the back. The 
drawing in the Plate was made from the model in the British Museum 
(Natural History). 
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