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Title: Transactions and proceedings of the New Zealand Institute
Year: 1868 (1860s)
Authors: New Zealand Institute (Wellington, N.Z
Subjects: Science Birds
Publisher: Wellington : J. Hughes, Printer
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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, with a mesialridge, but in B. is concave on each side of the ridge, and has a more roundedoutline in front. The maxillaries are flat and gradually tapering in front of the blow-hole;the intermaxilliaries are slightly expanded in the middle and project 6 inchesbeyond the maxillaries to form a sharp-pointed beak ; the nasal bones aresolid, triangular, shelving on each side, with a keel-like ridge on the exteriorsuperior margin. The lower jaws are strong, curved, solid, rounded externally, with a flatinternal surface, and a conical coronoid process that projects 3 inches, and issituated 16 inches from the articular end of each ramus. The baleen consists of 300 plates on each side, the length of the concavesurface to which it is attached being 5 feet j the longest plates, which arc onthe middle part, arc 13 inches in length and 7 inches in width at base. A. B. Ft. In. Ft. In. 7 0 6 0 4 0 4 0 4 6 4 0 2 4 2 4 1 9 1 9 1 9 1 7 0 6 0 6 0 8 0 8 1 9 1 7 7 0 6 10 TRANS, N.Z.INSTlTUTE,VOLI((Prai
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JB. deLelli^^. Hector.—Notes on New Zealand Whales. 257 Their colour is either black or grey, or banded with dirty white, some of theplates being almost altogether of a light tint; each plate is fringed withcoarse white hair. PHYSALUS AUSTRALIS, Gray.Stenohalcena xanthogaster^ Gray, Ann. and Mag. N. H., Oct. 1874, p. 305. PL XYIII. On the lOfch of June last a large whale, reported by the whalers to be atrue sulphur-bottom, was cast ashore in Port Underwood, on the south side ofCook Strait, and an assistant (Mr. A. McKay) was despatched from themuseum to secure the skeleton and take measurements. The carcass was stranded on a rocky point close to deep water, and had tobe dragged into a fresh position before it could be handled. It was so muchdecomposed that the skull and jaws dropped through the flesh during theremoval, and on this account the external measurements are not very reliable.The whole of the skeleton was ultimately secured and placed out of reach ofthe tide to sweeten, th

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