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our largest catch of Blue-whales, and there appears to be a 

 considerable amount of correlation between the two species 

 in regard to their local abundance, but this correlation is not 

 so close as that which I have already pointed out between 

 the Blue-whale and the Nordcaper. As to the Sei-whale, 

 Hjort, Guldberg, and Cocks tell us that in the north of 

 Norway, from the North Cape to the Murman coast, only 

 six Sei were taken in 1884, but the extraordinary number 



Fig. 14. The Scottish Catoh of Sei-whales during April and Maj' (i9o8-l9r4). 



of 659 were got in 1885. Mr Cocks' figures for the Finmark 

 coast are slightly different, but to the same effect: 



We can only wish that we had a longer series of these 

 Norwegian statistics, for all that Guldberg (1904) tells us 

 besides is that after 1885 the Sei were met with on the same 

 coast in some vears but were never seen in others. However, 



