Studies in Tasmanian Cetacea. Part VI

On the third of October, of the present year, there came to us from Preservation Island the ossified mesorostral bones of a Ziphoid Whale. Owing to the dense character of such ossified rostral moieties it is not easy to determine their actual age, unless field notes have been collected, and as none are available to use, we can only say that, although apparently recent, it may have been washed out of a Pleistocene shell limestone formation. The specimen is not perfect and shows evidence of a wound during the life of the animal, which must have caused distortion to the end of the beak