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

by John Edward Gray

Beak of the skull bent downwards: crest of the back of the beak sharp-edged, above as high as the occiput.

Vertebræ 44 or 45:—C. 7 (all united into one solid mass). D. 9. L. 10. C. 18 or 19.

1. Hyperoodon butzkopf.

B.M.

Hyperoodon butzkopf, Gray, l. c. p. 330; Synops. Whales & Dolph. p. 9, t. 3.

Hyperoodon rostratum, Reinhardt, in Eschricht’s Vid. Selsk. v. t. 7 (male fœtus and skeleton); Gray, Synops. Whales & Dolph. t. 3. f. 1-4.

Inhab. North Sea.

1. Hyperoodon semijunctus, Cope, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad. 1865, p. 15 (280), 1869, p. 21.

Inhab. Charlestown Harbour.