. Catalogue of seals and whales in the British Museum . Seals (Animals); Whales. 4. CAPEEEA. 101 4. CAPEREA. The tympanic bone irregular rhombic, aperture irregular, much contracted at the upper end, and the wide part not half the length of the bone. The scapula, atlas, ribs, and cervical vertebrae not observed. Caperea, Ch-ay, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1864, 202 (May 24); Ann. &â Mag. Nat. Hist. 1864, xiv. 349. 1. Caperea antipodanun. The New Zealand Whale. Balsena antipodarum, Oray, Dieffenbach, New Zealand, t. 1. Right Whale, Polach, New Zealand, ii. 401. Balsena antarctica, Cfray, Zool. JErebm
. Catalogue of seals and whales in the British Museum . Seals (Animals); Whales. 4. CAPEEEA. 101 4. CAPEREA. The tympanic bone irregular rhombic, aperture irregular, much contracted at the upper end, and the wide part not half the length of the bone. The scapula, atlas, ribs, and cervical vertebrae not observed. Caperea, Ch-ay, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1864, 202 (May 24); Ann. &â Mag. Nat. Hist. 1864, xiv. 349. 1. Caperea antipodanun. The New Zealand Whale. Balsena antipodarum, Oray, Dieffenbach, New Zealand, t. 1. Right Whale, Polach, New Zealand, ii. 401. Balsena antarctica, Cfray, Zool. JErebm ^ Terror. Cete, 16. t, 1; Cat. Cetac. B. M. 1850,18; (not Lesson nor Owen). Balsena Caperea antipodarum, Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1864,202. Caperea antipodarum, Ctray, 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. australis, 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 6n, as in that species, is about two-sevenths from the chin. M. Mihie-Edwards informs me that there is a skeleton of this whale in the Paris Museum. Kg. Tympanic bones of Caperea antipodarum. The tympanic bone oblong, rugulose; the upper and outer margin thick and rounded; the lower edge truncated; the back regularly convex, with a smooth, broad, slightly depressed portion just above the middle. The lower truncated end very broad, with 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 (Natural History). Dept. of Zoology; Gray, John Edward, 1800-1875. London : Printed by order of the Trustees
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