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Show 590 PROF. J. VON HAAST ON ZIPHIUS NOV;E ZEALAND!*. [Dec. 4, 5. Further Notes on Ziphius (Epiodon) novce zealandice, von Haast. By Professor JULIUS VON HAAST, C.M.G., Ph.D., F.R.S., C.M.Z.S. [Received November 20, 1883.] In a paper submitted to the Society on April 6, 1880 (see P. Z. S. 1880, p. 232), I gave a description of a female of this interesting Goose-beaked Whale, together with a drawing, showing that numerous attacks had been made upon it, by which the skin bad become covered with a large number of oval and seamed scars. At the same time I pointed out that the teeth of the females, in aged individuals disappearing altogether below the gums, were generally covered with a rugose cement to the very tips, and that they could therefore not be well used for the purpose of attack and defence. Consequently I supposed that the scars were due to the attacks of the males, of which, at that time, no specimen had been secured. Fig. 1. Lower jaw of Ziphius novce zealandice, side view ; one third natural size. However, to confirm such a supposition I drew attention to the fact that several skulls had been obtained in which the teeth were not only much larger aud heavier (according to Dr. Hector 817 and 836 grains against 62 to 202 grains, the weight of the female teeth), but moreover were worn down into two lateral facets divided by an acute ridge, so that they had evidently been used. These skulls naturally were considered to have belonged to males. On the 13th of June of this year, the news reached me that a Whale had been stranded the day before near the mouth of the Ashley, and though, when reaching the locality, the carcase had already been partly cut into to obtain the blubber, there was a suffi- |