. Catalogue of seals and whales in the British Museum. British Museum (Natural History); Seals (Animals); Whales. 12. BELXJGA. down below the middle of the hinder Terror, t. 29. fig. 3. 307 -Gray, Zool. Ereb. Sf Delphinopterus, Lacep. Cct. 243. Delphinapteriis, F. Cuv. D. S. JV. lix. 517, 1829. Beluga, liaji?i. Anal. Nat. 60, 1815; Graij, Spic. Zool. 2, 1828; Zool. Erehus 8f Terror; Cat. Cetac. B. M. 77; Proc. Zool Soc. 1863,201; 1864, 240; Lessoti, Man.; Bell, Brit. Quad. 1837. Delphis, Wa(/ler, N. S. Amph. 34, 1830. Delphinus (pars), Linn.; Illiger, Prod. 143, 1811. Catodon (pars), Ar
. Catalogue of seals and whales in the British Museum. British Museum (Natural History); Seals (Animals); Whales. 12. BELXJGA. down below the middle of the hinder Terror, t. 29. fig. 3. 307 -Gray, Zool. Ereb. Sf Delphinopterus, Lacep. Cct. 243. Delphinapteriis, F. Cuv. D. S. JV. lix. 517, 1829. Beluga, liaji?i. Anal. Nat. 60, 1815; Graij, Spic. Zool. 2, 1828; Zool. Erehus 8f Terror; Cat. Cetac. B. M. 77; Proc. Zool Soc. 1863,201; 1864, 240; Lessoti, Man.; Bell, Brit. Quad. 1837. Delphis, Wa(/ler, N. S. Amph. 34, 1830. Delphinus (pars), Linn.; Illiger, Prod. 143, 1811. Catodon (pars), Artedi, Gen. 78 ; Fleming, B. A. 29. Cetus (pars), Brisson, R. A. i. 227, 1762. Physeter (pars), Linn, S. N, Cachalot (pars), Lacep. Cet. Phocsena (pars), F, Cuv. Cetac. There is a great similarity in the general form of the skulls of PTioccena, Beluga, and Monoceros; but, independently of the size and teeth, they differ in the form of the convexity in front of the blower; in Beluga the front of the blower is flattish, in Monoceros there is a broad, half-oblong convexity, and in Phoccena a squarish tuberosity. The genus Delphinapteriis was formed by Lacepede to contain this animal (which he before described as a Catodon) and the DelpJiinus Senedette, which is probably an imaginary figiire of a Sperm Whale made from description, or perhaps of D. Orca with the dorsal fin left out. It has been applied by Peron, Cuvier, and others to a very different animal. Professor Owen observes, the prefrontal bones are large and coalesce with the vomer, and ascend into view at the back part of the nostrils, where they coalesce with the frontals. The nasal bones are wedged into an interspace between them and the frontals, at the summit of the nasal apertures.—Cat. Osteal. Coll. Surg. 454. n. 2-506. Fig. Skull of Beluga Catodon, Cuv. t. 22. f. 5. 1. Beluga Catodon. The Nortliem Beluga. White; young black; the nose of the skull in length nearly one- x2. Please note that these images are extr
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