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THE WHALEBOliTE WHALES OF THE WESTERN NORTH ATLANTIC. 



Megapiera versabilis, measurements of, by Scam- 

 mon, 371, 274 

 measurements of, compared 

 with those of Megaptera no- 

 dosa, 375 

 original description of, 103 

 pectorals, 275 

 Scammon's figures of, 379 

 skeleton of, from Washington, 



276 

 tubercles, 375 

 whalebone, 376 

 MegaptericUv, 48 

 Miller, Jr., G. S.. 295 

 Mobjack Bay, Virginia. 84 

 MoUer, H. P. C, description of Bahfiioptera muscu- 



lus in Greenland, 189 

 Mi'iller, O. F. , Prodromus of Zocilog}' of Denmark, 



Greenland whales mentioned in. 42 

 1\I tiller, P. L. S., annotated edition of Linnteus's 

 Systema Natura?, American species of whales 

 mentioned in, 41 

 Myers, A. H., 193 



Nantucket, whales at, 21 

 Narwhal, 35 



Natural liistories of the seventeenth century, 34 

 eighteenth century, 35 

 nineteenth century, 46 

 Nieuw Engelandsche Penvisch, 41 

 New England coast, whales of the, 30, 37, 64 

 New England, colonial whale fishery of, 75 

 New England finback, 71 

 New England humpback, 71 

 New England right whale, 71 



Newfoundland. Balena Station, length of Megaptera 

 at, 213 

 Bonnycastle's observations on the 



whales of, 53 

 humpback whales of, 44 

 length of specimens of Megaptera no- 

 dosa at Snook's Arm, 313 

 list of specimens of Bahenoptera 

 musadus taken at Balena Station, 

 1901, 153 

 measurements of Bakeiioptera iiiiifi- 



eidus at Balena Station, 157 

 Reeks's article on zoology of, 60 

 Sir Humphrey Gilbert's voyage to, 



16 

 whale fishery at, 3, 70, 111 

 whales observed about, 11, 13, 66 

 Newfoundland and Norwegian specimens of Balce- 

 nopjteru mxseulus, comparative measurements of, 

 159, 160 

 Newfoundland finbacks, 66, 111, 112 

 Newfoundland humpback, 66, 111, 373 

 Newfoundland specimens of, common finback, 84 



Megaptera nodosa, 

 measurements of, 223 

 Newfoundland sulphurbottom, color of, 163 



dorsal fin of, 172 



Newfoundland whale fishery of the sixteenth and 



seventeenth centuries, 13 

 Newfoundland whaling stations, 4 

 New Jersey, Cape May, whales killed at, 76 



Watson's notes on whales on coast of, 76 

 whale fishing on coast of, 76 

 New London County Historical Society, 73 

 New York, colonial whale fishery of, 73, 74 

 Hudson River, whales in, 23 

 Long Island, colonial whaling at, 75 



whale captured in Peconic 



Bay, 73 

 whales at, 34, 75 

 Thompson's history of Long Island, 74 

 New York Bay, whales in, 33 

 Niagara Falls Museum, 4 

 Nielsen, A., 4 

 Nieremherg, J. E., 35 

 Nordcaper, 39, 41, 43, 44, 45, 49, .53, 50, 249, 2.50, 203, 



264, 298 

 North American whalebone whales, chronological 

 account of contributions to the natural history 

 of, 34 

 North Atlantic right whale, 244 



diagnosis of the, 298 

 North Carolina, Beaufort, partial skeleton of Baki'tia 

 glacialis found at. 360 

 Brickell's natural history of, 37 

 whale fishery on coast of, 36 

 North Pacific, humpback of the, 78, 102 



Pechuel's observations on whales of 



the, 60 

 right whale of the, 59 

 North Pacific whales, comparison of, with those of 

 the North Atlantic, 270 

 Dall's list of, 59 

 observations on, 269 

 specimens of, 269 

 Norwegian and Newfoundland specimens of Bake- 

 noptem muscidns, comparative measurements 

 of. 159, 160 

 Norwegian Bakeiioptera phi/salus, size of, 113 

 Norwood, Richard, observations on whales at Ber- 

 muda, 28 

 Notre Dame Bay, Newfoundland, whales taken in, 



111 

 Nyenhuis, J. T. B. , 151 



O'C^allaghan's documents relating to colonial history 



of State of New Y'ork, 73 

 Ocean City (N. J.) whale. 179, 182, 183, 189 



measurements of, 184 

 nasal bones, 184 

 phalanges, 188 

 ribs, 185 

 scapula, 186 

 Oregon, whales on the coast of, mentioned by Lewis 



and Clark, 47 

 Ostend whale, 151, 153, 158, 190 



scapula of, 187 

 Oviedo, on whales of Pacific coast of Central America, 

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