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

by John Edward Gray

“Sternum 10 × 7 inches—with three sternal ribs, each 7 inches long.

“The first rib is 10 inches from head to tip, but is bent with an arch of 5 inches.

“The atlas, axis, and three other cervicals are anchylosed. The compound cervicals have a conjoined length of 4 inches. Vertical diameter of foramen magnum 2½ inches. Conjoined length of the four lumbers 8 inches; height, including spinous processes, 8·5 inches. Caudal apparatus, of thirteen segments, 16 inches; two of these are anchylosed. Teeth 9-9/8-8”.—Hector.

6. Globiocephalus Scammonii, Cope, Proc. Ac. N. S. Philad. 1869, p. 11.

Black above and below.

Inhab. North Pacific.

7. Globiocephalus australis.

Inhab. Coast of Australia. In Museum of Sydney.

8. Globiocephalus indicus, Gray, Cat. S. & W. p. 322.