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

by John Edward Gray

Delphinus globiceps, Grant, P. Z. S. 1833, p. 65.

Delphinus orca, Eydoux, Mus. Paris.

Orca capensis, Gray, Zool. Ereb. & Terr. p. 34, tab. 9, not Cat. Seals & Whales, p. 283; Gervais, Ostéogr. Cét. t. 48. fig. 1.

Orca (Ophysia) capensis, Gray, Synops. Whales & Dolph. p. 8, tab. 9 (skull).

Inhab. North Pacific (Capt. Delville, R.N.).

Skull, from the Zoological Society’s collection.

Family 14. BELUGIDÆ.

Beluginæ, Flower, Trans. Zool. Soc. vi. p. 115.

Head rounded in front. Teeth in both jaws more or less early deciduous, rarely wanting or, rather, not developed. Back without any dorsal fin. Pectoral fin small, ovate. Skull with the lateral expansion of the maxilla over the orbit, and the side of the beak, shelving downwards. Fingers short; index and middle fingers nearly the same length, the rest rather shorter; phalanges 2, 5, 6, 4, 3. Cervical vertebræ generally free; the second with a large dorsal process.