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(33° S.), southward to pack ice (cf. record 77°32' S., 173°22' W., in 

 Racovitza, 1903, Exped. Antarctique Belgique, Cet., p. 115, ex Gray, 1892, 

 Deutsche Geogr. Blatter, Bremen, 15: 140-151). 



Hyperoodon ampullatus Forster 



"Bottle-head" or "Flounders-head" Dale, 1732, History and antiquities 



of Harwich and Dovercourt, London, ed. 2, pp. 411-412, fig. 14 



(animal) [N. Atlantic: England (Maldon, Essex); stranded above the 



bridge, Sept. 23, 1717]. 

 "Beaked whale," Pennant, 1766, British zoology, 3: 41, 59, pi. 5 fig. 1 



("bottle-head whale" ex Dale) [N. Atlantic: England (Maldon, Essex)]. 

 "Bottle-nosed whale," Hunter, 1787, Philos. Trans. Roy. Soc, 77(1): 



373, 447, pi. 19 (animal) [N. Atlantic: England (above London Bridge, 



Thames River)]. 

 "Deux cetaces echoues vers Honfleur," Baussard, 1789, Journ. Phys., 



34: pi. 10 (animals, female and young), pi. 11 (skull of adult) [N. 



Atlantic : France (near Honfleur) ; characters of adult and juvenal 



stranded Sept. 19, 1788]. 

 Balcena ampullata Forster, 1770, in Kalm, Travels into North America, 



1: 18, ftn. 

 Hyperoodon ampullatus, Rhoads, 1902, Science, n.s., 15: 756 [antedates 



Balaena rostrata Miiller, 1776]. — U.S. Navy Hydrographic Office, 



1958, Oceanographic atlas of the polar seas, 2: maps 115-126 [seasonal 



concentrations and movements]. — Fraser and Purves, 1960, Bull. 



Brit. Mus. (Nat. Hist.), Zool., 7: 39, 80, pi. 8 (skull) [auditory system]. 

 Balcena rostrata Miiller, 1776, Zoologiae Danicae prodromus, p. 7 [name 



based on bibliographic references to the North Atlantic "nebbe- 



hval" or "butskopf" of Danish whalers]. — Chemnitz, 1779, Beschaft. 



Berlinischen Gesellsch. Naturf. Fr., 4: 183 [N. Atlantic: Spitzbergen; 



stranded May 26, 1777]. 

 Hyperoodon rostratus, Van Beneden and Gervais, 1880, Osteographie des 



cetaces, p. 356, pis. 18, 19 (skeleton) [characters; taxonomic history]. 

 H[yperoodon] rostratus, Nishiwaki, 1957, Coll. Rep. Fish. Sci., Univ. Tokyo, 



p. 150 [N. Pacific: between Kuriles and Kamchatka; whalers' records; 



measurements of pregnant female; Berardius bairdi of authors (cf. 



Omura, Fujino and Kimura, 1955, Sci. Rep. Whales Res. Inst., Tokyo, 



60: 89); no specimens preserved in Japan]. 

 Hyperoodon rostratum, Van Beneden, 1888, Mem. Cour. Autr. Mem. 



Acad. Roy. Belgique, 41: 53 (separate) [history; characters; habits; 



distribution; whaling; specimens; parasites]. 

 D[elphinus] Bidentatus Bonnaterre, 1789, Tableau encyclopedique cetol- 



ogie, p. 25, pi. 11, fig. 3 (Hunter's "bottle-nosed whale") [N. Atlantic: 



England (type locality: Thames River); name based on the "bottle- 

 nosed whale" of Hunter]. 



