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

by John Edward Gray

Fabricia, Gray, l. c. p. 382.

The lower lateral processes of the third to the seventh cervical vertebræ with an angular projection on the lower edges. Fingers short, the length of the forearm-bone.

Scapula broad; acromion and coracoid elongate, slender.

1. Balænoptera rostrata.

B.M.

Balænoptera rostrata, Gray, l. c. p. 188, figs. 49-53; Synops. Whales & Dolph. p. 3, t. 1. f. 5 (baleen), t. 2 (skull), t. 32. f. 3, 4 (cervical vertebræ); Van Beneden, Ostéogr. Cét. t. 12 & t. 13. figs. 1-10.

Inhab. North Sea.

2. Balænoptera velifera.

Balænoptera velifera, Cope, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad. 1869, p. 18, f. 9, 10.

Dorsal fin large.