Supplement to the catalogue of seals and whales in the British Museum

by John Edward Gray

8. Electra thicolea.

B.M.

Electra thicolea, Gray, Synops. Whales & Dolph. p. 7, t. 36.

Lagenorhynchus thicolea, Gray, Cat. S. & W. p. 271. no. 7.

Beak of the skull narrow behind, twice as long as the width at the notch. Teeth small, six in an inch.

Inhab. West coast of North America.

9. FERESA.

Orca (Feresa), Gray, P. Z. S. 1870, p. 77.

The beak of the skull from the notch rather shorter than from the notch to the condyle, depressed, flat above, gradually tapering in front; the width at the notch two-thirds of the entire length of the beak. Lower jaw slender, narrow and thin in front, teeth not reaching the notch.