INDEX. 



323 



Bangs, Outran! . 4 



Barbadoes, whale fisliery about tho, 61 



Basque whale, 57, 60 



Basque whale fisliery, 13, .50, 60 



Fischer's statements regarding 

 the, 366 

 Basques, acquaintance of, with the "Grand Baj- " 



whale, 13 

 Beaked whale, 46 

 Beard, D, C. 4 

 Bearded whale, 13 

 Beauregaid, H,, 153 

 Belle Isle, Strait of, 43 



Cdldiiial wIkiIi' (ishery in, 7(1 

 Belon, P., 35 

 Beluga, 14. 36 



Beneden (Van). See \ai\ Hi-ni'ilrn. 

 Bering Island, finback observed by Dr. L. Stejneger 



at, 383 

 Bermuda, humpback whale of. 40 



hunipback-wjiale fisliery, 39 

 Verrill's statement regarding whales at, 30 

 whale fishery at, 37, 39 

 whales of, 73 

 Biekford, J., type of Meiidpteni osphyia captured 



by, 91 

 Biscay whale, 15, 367. 398 

 Blaahval, 171, 173 

 Blackfish, 44, 54 

 Black whale, 78, 79, 349, 397. 39.S 



captured in ( 'luirleslon (S. C.) harbor, 63 

 Blake, J. H., 368 



notes on Baheiiopfera aciilo-rotstriilaAd') 

 Blue whale, 149, 150, 163 



Cocks's measurements of, 150 

 Bocourt's figure of Bahenoplevu acuto-rontrata, 193 

 Boddajrts edition of Linna^us's Systema Natune, 



American species of whales mentionetl in, 41 

 Bolau, H., summaries of natural history and geo- 

 graphical distribution of cetaceans, 63 

 Bonnaterre, Abbe, species of Bakena mentioned by, 45 



Tableau Encyclopedique of, 44 

 Bonnycastle, Sir Richard, observations cju whales of 



Nevvfoundkmd, 53 

 Boops. 311 



Boty, Iver, narrative of, 6 

 Bowhead, 5, 39, 43-44 



Bradford's and Winsiow's Journal nf I'lyniDUth Col- 

 ony, 33 

 Briokell's natural history of North Carolina, 37 

 Brimley, H. H., 4 



on right-whale fishery around Beau- 

 fort Inlet, North Carolina, 36 

 Brisson, M. J., species of Bahvna mentioned by, 40 

 Regne Animal of, American species of 

 whales mentioned in, 40 

 British Museum, Flower's list of cetacea in the, 63 

 Brookhaven, New York, colonial whaling at, 75 

 Brown, Robert, on Greenland cetacea, 61 



on Greenland finbacks, 189 

 Buckelwal, 61 

 Bull, Captain, 4 



Bunch whale, 37 

 Buzzard's Bay, Mass.. 6 



Cabot Steam Whaling Company, 4. Ill, 11 t. 1 19 

 California finback, 66 

 California gray whale, 54, 66, 80, 387 

 California, gray-whale fishery of, 61 



Jouan's ob.servations on the whales of, 54 

 whales at Monterey, 33 



San .Simeon Bay, 68 

 whales off coast of, 67 



Monterey County, 67 

 Santa Barbara County, 06 

 S;ui l.iiis (Jbispo County, (id 

 California ljum)iljarK'. (1(1 

 California ranger, 54 

 California sulphnrbottom, 66 

 Californian whaling stations, 62 

 Canada, Gaspe, whales at, 19, 20 



whales of, 20, 44 

 Cape Cod, Mass., colonial whale fishery at, 6!) 

 whales in Barnstable Ba}', 22 

 whales of, 23 

 Cape Farewell, whales near, 9, 10 

 Cape May. N. J., whales killed at, 76 

 Cape .Sable, whales seen near, 32 

 Cape St. Lucas, whales at, 33 

 Capellini's figures of skull of Balanoptera acutoros- 



trata, 198 

 Carolina, Catesby's natural history of, 37 

 Carolinas, Lawson's observations on whales of the, 36 

 Cartier, allusions to cetaceans by, 14 



seconil voj'age of, 14 

 Catesby's natural history of Carolina, 37 

 Caulkins, Frances M., history of New London, Con- 

 necticut, 73 

 Central America, Cviedo's account of whales on 

 Pacific coast of, 31 

 Ulloa's lefercnce to whales on Pa- 

 cific coast of, 32 

 Cetacea, geographical distribution of, 207 



remarks regarding species among, 206 

 Clianqilain, description of whale fishery in New 

 France, 17 

 voyages of, 18 

 Charlevoi.x's history and general descrijition of New 



France. 30 

 (/lark, A. Howard, history of American whale fish- 

 ery, 68 

 (classification of whales, Ander.son's, 39 



Klein's, 38 

 Coat, Captain, remarks on geograiihy of Hud.son 



Bay, 13 

 Cocks, A. H., 153 



notes on color of Norwegian liunip- 



backs, 316 

 remarks on length of Balivtioptera 



iiiuaciitiis, 150 

 statistics of length of Balcenoptera 

 tiiiisculus taken at Norwegian sta- 

 tions, 154 

 statistics of length of Megaptera, 213 



