316 THE WHALEBONE WHALES OF THE WESTERN NORTH ATLANTIC. 



PLATE 34. 



Figure 1. Megaptera heUicosa Cope. Type-skeleton. Cervical and dorsal vertebr*. 



Figure 2. The same specimen. Lumbar vertebras. 



Figure 3. The same specimen. Caudal vertebrae. 



Figure 4. The same specimen. Right scapula, humerus, radius, and ulna. 



PLATE 35. 



Figure 1. Megaptera heUicosa Cope. Type-skeleton. First lumbar, first dorsal, axis, and atlas. Anterior 



view. 

 Figure 2. The same specimen. Ribs. 



PLATE 36. 



Figure 1. Megaptera osphyia Cope. Skull from the type-skeleton. Niagara Falls Museum, New York. (This 

 type is in such a position in the museum that it is impossible to obtain an entirely satisfactory photo- 

 graph. In this figure the anterior extremity of the rostrum and mandible liave been added in pencil.) 



Figure 2. The same specimen, showing artificial arrangement of phalanges. 



Figure 3. The same specimen. Pectoral region. The vertebras are mounted backwards. 



Figure 4. Megaptera nodosa (Bonnaterre). Right scapula of No. }||||, 9 , U. S. National Museum. Province- 

 town, Mass. Young. Exterior view. 



Figure .5. The same species, No. 21492, U. S. National Museum. Cape Cod, Mass. Exterior view. 



PLATE 37. 



Figure 1. Megaptera nodosa (Bonnaterre). No. 5 S . Showing white pectorals and under surface of flukes. 



Snook's Arm Station, Notre Dame Bay, Newfoundland. 

 Figure 2. The same specimen. Ventral view. 

 Figure 3. The same specimen. Head, showing white areas under the eye and at tip of snout, and white 



rings on the mandible caused by barnacles. 



PLATE 38. 

 Figure 1. Megaptera nodosa (Bonnaterre). An unusually white specimen. 

 Figure 2. The same species. 



From negatives taken by William Palmer at Balena Station, Newfoundland, 1901. 



PLATE 39. 



Figure 1. Megaptera nodosa (Bonnaterre). No. 5 i . Ventral view, showing characteristic arrangement of 

 ridges anteriorly. 



Figure 2. The same species. No. 6 ? . Dorsal view. 



Figure 3. The same species and specimen. Ventral view, showing small amount of white on exterior sur- 

 face of the pectoral, and on the belly. 



Figure 4. The same species. No. 21 s . Ventral view. 



All specimens from Snook's Arm Station, Notre Dame Bay, Newfoundland. 



PLATE 40. 



Figure 1. Megaptera nodosa (Bonnaterre). Provincetown, Mass. Male. Ventral view. 



Figure 3. The same species. Flukes from No. 136.56, 9 , U. S. National Museum. Provincetown, Mass. 



Dorsal view. 

 Figure 3. The same species. No. 21 S . Snook's Arm Station, Newfoundland. 

 Figure 4. Megaptera versabilis Cope. Coast of California. Photograph obtained by Mr. C. H. Townsend. 



PLATE 41. 



Figure 1. Megaptera versabilis Cope. Henderson's Bay, Puget Sound, Washington, September .5, 1896. 



Shows the arrangement of dermal tubercles, shape of blowholes, color of pectoral fin. etc. 

 Figure 2. The same specimen. 

 Figure 3. The same specimen. Head and back, showing characteristic shape of dorsal fin, dermal 



tubercles, etc. 

 Figure 4. The same specimen. Mouth. 



Figure .5. The same species. Coast of California. Photograph obtained by Mr. C. H. Townsend. 

 Figure 6. Right pectoral of Megaptera nodosa. No. 13656, ? , U. S. National Museum. Provincetown, Mass. 



Exterior surface. 



