4. CAPEEEA. 



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4. CAPEREA. 



The tympanic bone irregular rhombic, aperture irregular, much 

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

 of the bone. 



The scapula, atlas, ribs, and cervical vertebrae not observed. 



Caperea, Ch-ay, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1864, 202 (May 24) ; Ann. &■ Mag. 

 Nat. Hist. 1864, xiv. 349. 



1. Caperea antipodanun. The New Zealand Whale. 



Balsena antipodarum, Oray, Dieffenbach, New Zealand, t. 1. 



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



Balsena antarctica, Cfray, Zool. JErebm ^ Terror. Cete, 16. t, 1 ; Cat. 



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

 Balsena Caperea antipodarum, Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1864, 202. 

 Caperea antipodarum, Ctray, 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. australis, 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 6n, as in that species, is about two-sevenths from the chin. 



M. Mihie-Edwards informs me that there is a skeleton of this 

 whale in the Paris Museum. 



Kg. 9. 



Tympanic bones of Caperea antipodarum. 



The tympanic bone oblong, rugulose ; the upper and outer margin 

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

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

 the middle. The lower truncated end very broad, with a regular 

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



