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of the Kermadecs from August to the end of November. (Oliver, 

 1922, p. 565.) The season on the reefs around the Friendly Islands 

 (174° W. long, and 21° S. lat.) includes August and September. 

 (Scammon, 1874, p. 43.) Then the southward movement begins, and 

 they again occur after the middle of September in small numbers off 

 the Bay of Islands, but the majorit}'^ pass in October and by the 

 middle of December they occur farther south. (Lillie, 1915, p. 110.) 

 During the Antarctic summer whaling operations for humpbacks are 

 carried on in the vicinity of Campbell Island. Ross (1847, p. 191) 

 reported seeing great numbers of humpback whales in Ross Sea 

 (172° 20' E. long, and 71° 50' S. lat.) on January 14, 1841, yet Lillie 

 states that humpbacks do not go farther south than the outskirts 

 of the pack ice. 



On their northward run some of the herds of humpbacks pass near 

 Tasmania and along the western coast of Australia and journey as 

 far northward as the Rosemary Islands, 20° 30' south latitude. 

 Others do not migrate so far north, and the cows have been known 

 to give birth to calves in Geographe Bay on the coast of southwest 

 Australia. Humpbacks are found along the western coast of Aus- 

 tralia from June to November and occasionally in December. 

 (Clark, 1887, pp. 22, 208.) 



On the American side of the North Pacific numbers of humpback 

 whales with calves a few days old have been observed in December 

 in Banderas Bay, Jalisco, Mexico. (Scammon, 1874, p. 43.) In 

 May, 1855, Scanmion (1874, p. 43) reported seeing large numbers 

 of humpbacks, some with large calves and others with smaller ones, 

 at Magdalena Bay, southern Lower California. The humpbacks 

 begin their northward run along the coasts of California in March 

 and April, and continue to work their way northward past Vancouver 

 in May and June, and the Baranoff Islands until as late as Septem- 

 ber. A young humpback and its mother were killed near Sechart, 

 Vancouver, on June 16, 1908. (Andrews, 1916, p. 73.) Some of 

 these schools feed in the vicinity of the Aleutian Islands in August 

 and September, while others pass through Bering Sea to Bering 

 Strait. Humpbacks have been taken in Bering Sea at least as late 

 as September 17. The northward migration is prolonged into mid- 

 summer by occasional stragglers, for small numbers are taken at 

 Eureka, Calif., in June and July. They appear again along the Cal- 

 ifornia coasts in late fall on the down run, appearing off the Bay of 

 Monterey from October to November, but the largest numbers pass 

 southern California in the months of December, January, and Feb- 

 ruary. The cows and their calves usually keep well out to sea, but 

 the bulls come closer inshore. 



Published data in regard to seasonal migrations of humpbacks 

 along the Pacific coast of Asia are very limited. Whalers formerly 



