INDEX. 



Acosta, Joseph de, fable of Indians killing whak'.s, 37, 



31, 35, 87, 41, 43 

 Agaphelidce, 47 



Agaphelus, 80, 104. 105, 370, 387 

 Agaphelns gibbosus, 47, 56, 104, 105 



measurements of, 106 

 note on, 103 

 Agajilielus glaucus, 80, 81, 104 

 Alaska, whales of, 83 

 Aleutian Islands, whales at the. 33 

 Allen, J. A., bibliography of cetology, 63 



list of cetaceans of JIassachusetts, 58 

 opinion regarding Bahena cisarctica, 

 364 

 Amagansett, Long Island, whales sighted off. 63 

 Ambergris. 85 



American cetaceans, first references to. 6 

 American specimens of Bakenoptera physalus, 131 

 American whale fishery, Clark's history of the, 68 



Douglass's remarks on the, 



71 

 Felt's notes on the, 73 

 Lanman on the, 76 

 Stai'buck's history of the, 68 

 American zoologists, writings of, on whalebone 



whales. 34 

 Anderson, Jolin. resume on whales in northern 



waters, 39 

 Arbavirksoak, 43 

 Arbec, 43 



Arctic Afe.gaptera, 98. 99 

 Ashley, George H.. 4 

 Atlantic right whale, 33 



Holder's memoir on the, 63 

 At wood. N. E.. notes on cetacea of Massachusetts, 

 58 

 on the scrag whale, 37 

 AurivilUus, C. W. S., 153 



Baffin, William, first voyage of, 10 



in Wolstenholme Sound, 13 



letter of, to Sir John Wolstenholme, 



10 

 second voyage of, 10 



Baffin Bay, whales of, 6, 10 



Bahama Islands, spermaceti whales at the, 39 



Bahia finner, 103 



Baia de Ballenas, whales seen in the, 33 



Balmia, 40, 43, 43, 79, 387 



Balcena 

 Balcena 

 BatcBua 

 Balcena 

 Balcena 



Bakena 

 Balcena 



Balcena, Flower's remarks on, 63 



mentioned by Bonnaterre, 45 

 Bris.son, 40 

 Erxleben, 43 

 species of, distribution of, 56 

 Van Beneden on the geographical distribu- 

 tion of, 57 

 albicans, 43 

 antipodarum, 265 

 antlpodum, 266 

 aiistrcdis, 50, 63, 363, 365, 266 

 biseayensis, 15, 39, 55, 57, 60, 344, 263 

 Basque fishery for, 13 

 ribs, Gasco's description of, 357 

 boaps, 41, 46, 51, 61, 243 

 cisarctica, 3, 55, 56, 57, 60, 63, 78, 79, 263-267 

 description of the type-skeleton 



of, 79 

 measurements of the type-skele- 

 ton of, 79 

 note by Cope on, 61 

 type-skull of, nasals in, 253 

 Van Beneden's remarks on, 56 

 Balana gibbosa, 41, 43, 45, 104, 105 

 Balcena glacialis, 33, 39, 45, 68. 344, 266, 270, 297 



American specimens of, in Euro- 

 pean museums, 308 

 chevrons, 350 

 color, 349 



Guldberg's remarks on, 349 

 of American specimens of, 250 

 diagnosis of, 398 



length of A nierican specimens of, 246 

 European specimens of, 

 245 

 measurements of, 247, 268 

 opinions of cetologists regarding, 



262 

 phalanges, 360 



number of, 361 

 proportions of, 246 

 ribs, 256 



measurements of, 257, 258 

 scapulii, '359 



proportions of, 260 

 skeleton, measurements of, 355 

 skull, 251 



length of, 267 

 measurements of, 253 



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