4. CAPERBA. 



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4. CAPEREA. 



The tympanic bone irregular rhombic, aperture irreg-ular, much 

 contracted at the ujjper end, and the wide part not half the length 

 of the bone. « 



The scapula, atlas, ribs, and cervical vertcbraj not observed. J <li 



Caperea, Graij, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1864, 202 (May 24) : Ann. &■ Maq. 

 Nat. Hist. 1864, xiv. 349. 



1. Caperea antipodarum. The New Zealand Whale. 



Eala'ua antipodarum, Gray, Diiffenbach, Neiv Zealand, t. 1. 



Right Whale, Polach, New Zealand, ii. 401. 



Balrena antarctica, Grai), Zool. Erehm Sf Terror, C'ete, 16. t. 1 ; Cat. 



Cetac. B. M. 1850, 18 ; (not Lesson nor Given). 

 Bal?ena Caperea antipodarum, Grai/, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1864, 202. 

 Caperea antipodarum, Grai/, Ann. '^- Mag. Nat. Hist. 1864, xiv. 349. 



Inhab. New Zealand ; Jackson Bay. 



Described from a very accurate drawing of a specimen taken in 

 Jackson Bay ; it is very like Temminck's figure of B. aiistralis, but 

 there is a roundish prominence on the front of the under jaw similar 

 to the one on the nose ; the latter only is figured in that species ; the 

 pectoral fin, as in that species, is about two-sevenths from the chin. 



M. Milne-Edwai-ds informs me that there is a skeleton of this 

 whale in the Paris Museum. 



Fig. 9. 



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Tympanic bones of Caperea (tntipudarmn. 



Tlie tymjianic bone oblong, rugiilose ; the upper and outer margin 

 thick and rounded ; the lower edge truncated ; tlie back regularly 

 convex, with a smooth, Ijroad, slightly depressed portion just above 

 the middle. The lower truncated end verj- broad, witli a regular 

 convexity on the inner half, and keeled on the outer half of the upper 





