. Catalogue of seals and whales in the ... Museum. 4. CAPERBA. 101 4. CAPEREA. The tympanic bone irregular rhombic, aperture irreg-ular, much contracted at the ujjper end, and the wide part not half the length of the bone. « The scapula, atlas, ribs, and cervical vertcbraj not observed. J <li Caperea, Graij, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1864, 202 (May 24): Ann. &â Maq. Nat. Hist. 1864, xiv. 349. 1. Caperea antipodarum. The New Zealand Whale. Eala'ua antipodarum, Gray, Diiffenbach, Neiv Zealand, t. 1. Right Whale, Polach, New Zealand, ii. 401. Balrena antarctica, Grai), Zool. Erehm Sf Terror, C'ete
. Catalogue of seals and whales in the ... Museum. 4. CAPERBA. 101 4. CAPEREA. The tympanic bone irregular rhombic, aperture irreg-ular, much contracted at the ujjper end, and the wide part not half the length of the bone. « The scapula, atlas, ribs, and cervical vertcbraj not observed. J <li Caperea, Graij, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1864, 202 (May 24): Ann. &â Maq. Nat. Hist. 1864, xiv. 349. 1. Caperea antipodarum. The New Zealand Whale. Eala'ua antipodarum, Gray, Diiffenbach, Neiv Zealand, t. 1. Right Whale, Polach, New Zealand, ii. 401. Balrena antarctica, Grai), Zool. Erehm Sf Terror, C'ete, 16. t. 1 ; Cat. Cetac. B. M. 1850, 18; (not Lesson nor Given). Bal?ena Caperea antipodarum, Grai/, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1864, 202. Caperea antipodarum, Grai/, Ann. '^- Mag. Nat. Hist. 1864, xiv. 349. Inhab. New Zealand; Jackson Bay. Described from a very accurate drawing of a specimen taken in Jackson Bay; it is very like Temminck's figure of B. aiistralis, but there is a roundish prominence on the front of the under jaw similar to the one on the nose; the latter only is figured in that species ; the pectoral fin, as in that species, is about two-sevenths from the chin. M. Milne-Edwai-ds informs me that there is a skeleton of this whale in the Paris Museum. Fig. !r**s*i) Tympanic bones of Caperea (tntipudarmn. Tlie tymjianic bone oblong, rugiilose; the upper and outer margin thick and rounded ; the lower edge truncated ; tlie back regularly convex, with a smooth, Ijroad, slightly depressed portion just above the middle. The lower truncated end verj-broad, witli a regular convexity on the inner half, and keeled on the outer half of the upper. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original British Museum. Department of Zoology. [Mammals]; Gray, John Edward, 1800-1875. London
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