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

by John Edward Gray

The skull figured in the ‘Zoology of the Erebus and Terror’ under the name of O. capensis is from a specimen received from the Zoological Society, to which it was presented by Capt. Delville, who said he obtained it in the North Pacific (?). It is quite a different species, for which I propose the name of Orca pacifica. I doubt its being from the North Pacific, as I believe there is a skull of the same species in the Paris Museum, collected by M. Eydoux, and said to have come from Chili.

3. Orca africana.

Orca gladiator, var. australis, Gervais, Ostéogr. Cét. t. 47. f. 2.

Inhab. Algoa Bay.

Skull much smaller, 24 inches long.

4. Orca latirostris.

B.M.

Orca latirostris, Gray, P. Z. S. 1870, p. 76.

Orca gladiator, Gervais, Ostéogr. Cét. t. 48. f. 2, 3.

Delphinus orca, Cuv. Oss. Foss. v. tab. 22. fig. 4 (skull).