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Title: Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand
Year: 1880 (1880s)
Authors: Royal Society of New Zealand
Subjects: Science
Publisher: Wellington, N.Z. : The Society
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University Hawaii, Joseph F. Smith Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Consortium of Church Libraries and Archives

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I 3 •si 1 s I Is Haast.—Notes on Balaenoptera rostrata. 173 The sternum of the Sumner skeleton is somewhat different from the onefigured in the Osteographie des Cetaces, and I therefore add a figure ofthe former (Plate III.) from which, it will he observed that that bone is morerounded in its anterior portion, more keeled, but that it resembles in itsposterior portion that of B. robust a, as figured on page 283 of LilljeborgsMemoir on the Scandinavian Cetacea in Kecent Memoirs on the Cetacea,published by the Kay Society. From the latter it is, however, distinguishedin being rounded in its anterior portion. It has therefore not altogether the form of a Latin cross, according toVan Beneden and Gervais, as observed in other skeletons examined by them.However, as all the other bones show no difference from those of the nor-thern skeletons, we can safely assume that the form of the sternum is not ofspecific value, and that other skeletons of B. rostrata will be obtained inwhich the ste

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