INDEX. 



327 



Martens, F., 363 



Martha's Vineyard, bones of wliales at, 30 



whales killed at, 70 

 Martini(|iu', wliales about, HO 

 Maryland, Assateague beach, whales driven on sliore 



at, 76 

 Massachusetts, bones of whales found at Martha's 

 Vineyard, 30 

 cetaceans of, 58 



finback whale at Gloucester, 63 

 whales at Cape Cod, 71, 73, 83 

 at Duxbury, 73 

 at Gloucester, 64 

 at Nantucket. 31 

 at Plymouth, 65 

 Young's note on whales at Cape Cod, 

 73 

 Massachusetts Historical Society, collections of, ref- 

 erences to whale fishery in, 73 

 Mather, Richard, voyage to New England in 1635, 



33 

 Measurements, system of, 4 

 Megaptera, 83, 91, 3U 



American specimens of, 313 

 Flower's remarks on species of, 63 

 length of specimens of, at Norwegian 



whaling stations, 313 

 Van Beneden on the geographical distri- 

 bution of, 57 

 Megapfera from Greenland in European museums, 55 

 Megaptera amerieana, 48, 60, 341 

 Megapfera bellicosa, 60, 97, 103, 103, 333, 339, 341, 343 

 note on, by J. E. Gray, 48 

 remarks on the original descrip- 



of, 97 

 type-skeleton of, 97, 313, 333, 

 336, 340, 343 



measurements 



of the. 100 

 notes on the, 101 

 Megaptera boops. 63 

 Megaptera hrasiliensis, 103 



note on, 103 

 Megaptera knzira. 103, 376 

 Megaptera lalaiidii, 103 



Megaptera lorigimaiia. 48, 53, 55, 60, 93, 98, 99. 103. 

 341, 343, 376 

 type-specimen of, 336 

 Megaptera nodosa, 311, 341, 370, 373, 376, 397 

 abdominal ridges, 334 

 American specimens of, in Euro- 

 pean nniseums, 308 

 at Bernuida, large specimens of, 



314 

 caudal peduncle, 330 

 chevrons. 335 

 color, 316, 318, 331 



at .Snook's Arm Station, 



Newfoundland, 318 

 Cocks's notes on, 316 

 in Greenland specimens, 

 330 



Megaptera nodosa, color in Iceland specimens, 320 

 Rawitz's notes on, 317 

 Rawitz's theory of, 331 

 Sars's notes on, 317 

 Strutliers's notes on, 317 

 dermal tubercles, 325 

 diagnosis of, 298 

 dorsal fin, 336 



comparison of, in 

 American and Euro- 

 pean specimens, 338 

 Sars's description of, 

 337 

 eye, 330 

 flukes, 330 

 length of specimens of, at Balena 



Station, Newfoundland, 313 

 length of specimens of, at Snook's 



Arm, Newfoundland, 313 

 measurements of, 323 

 measurements of Newfoundland 



specimens of, 333 

 pectoral tins, 338 



length of, 339 

 shape of, 328 

 phalanges, 338 

 radius and ulna, 336 



measurements of, 

 388 

 ribs, 340 

 scapula, 335, 337 



measurements of, 335 

 proportions of, 236 

 size, 313 

 skeleton, 333 



measurements of, 334 

 skull, 333 



measurements of, 333 

 statistics of length of, 216 

 sternum, 339, 340 

 summary of discussion of. 340 

 vertebrae 234 

 vertebral fornmla. 333 

 whalebone, 230 

 Megaptera osplii/ia. iH. 82, 91. 98. 102, 232, 239, 241, 

 285 

 characters of, 341 

 notes on, 94 

 notes on the original description 



of, 92 

 type-skeleton of, mea.surements 

 of, 94. 96 

 notes on, 95 

 type-specimen of, 4, 91. 212, 333, 

 " 336, 241 

 Megaptera versahilis, 48, 78, 102. 270 



characters of. furnished by 



Scanuuon, 371 

 color of, notes by Scammon 



on, 273 

 comparison of , with Mrgnplirn 

 nodosa, 372 



