INDEX. 



329 



Pacific Coast, whales of the, 3t 

 Pacific Ocean, humpback wliale of, 273 



Jouan's observations on the whales of 

 the, 54 

 Palliser, Hugh, 70 



Parkhurst, Anthony, letter to Hakluyt, 15 

 Pecliuel-Loesche, M. E.,on Briliriiopfem >mlfurenii,287 



on whale fishery, 59 

 Penn, Wm., on whales in Delaware Bay, 2(i 

 Pflockfisch, 40-42 

 Physalidce, 48 

 Physalus nntiquorum, 48 

 Physalus brasiliensis, 103, 103 

 Physalus latirostris, 178 

 Pike-lieaded finner, 53 

 Pike whale near Newfoundland, (5(1 

 Pollack whale, 297 



diagnosis of, 300 

 Porpoises, 44, 65 



Portland Society of Natural History, 193 

 Prentiss, D. W., 153 



Rawitz's notes on color of humpback, 331 



Reeks, Henry, articles on zoology of Newfoundland, 



60 

 Reinhardt, J., figure of skull of Balcenoptera miis- 

 culus by, 183 

 on the sulphurbottom of Iceland, 



58 

 opinions regarding Balcena cisarctica 

 and biscayensis, 364 

 Shachianectes, 80, 81, 105, 270 



diagnosis of, by Cope, 387 

 Van Beneden's opinion regarding the 

 affinities of, 393 

 Rhachianectes gluucus, 47, 56, 65, 80, 287 



American specimens of, in 



European museums, 309 

 characters of, furnished by 



Scammon, 288 

 figures of, by C. H. Townsend, 

 289 

 by Scammon, 288 

 measurements of, 290 

 original description of, 80 

 pectorals, 293 

 size, 389 

 skeleton, 390 

 skull, 391 



measurements of, 391 

 specimens of, 290 

 sternum, 293 

 vertebrae, 393 

 vertebral formula, 291 

 whalebone, 287, 389, 390 

 Right whale, 24, 39, 37, 88, 43, 54, 60, 68 

 Right whale captured in Charleston harbor. Van 



Beneden's remarks on, 57 

 Right whale of the Atlantic, 367 

 Right whale of the North Atlantic, 344 



diagnosis of, 398 



Right whale of the North Pacific, 59 

 Riglit whale of the Northwestern Coast, 270 

 Right-whale fishery of North Pacific, .59 

 Right whales, 19 



Right whales, Atlantic. Holder's memoir oh, 02 

 geographical distribution of, 55, .59 

 on Atlantic coast, Van Beneden's note 



on, .57 

 opinions of cetologists regarding North 

 Atlantic species of, 363 

 Rios y Rial, Professor, 260 

 Rissmiiller, L., 4 



Rochefort, C. de, natural history of the Antilirs, .30, 

 35 

 on wliales and other monsters of the 

 sea, 30 

 Rondelet, G., 34, 35 

 Rorqual, 46, 49 

 Rorqittiliis itiitarcticiis, 49 

 Rurqiirtlus hoops, 49 

 Rorqunliis iiiiiscnliis, 49 



Rutgers College, scapula of lioliviKi glncinlis in the 

 museum of, 360 



Sagard-Theodat, (I., observations of, on whales of 



Gulf of St. Lawrence, 19 

 St. Lawrence, Gulf of, colonial wliale fishery in, 73 



Duhamel's references to bow- 

 heads in, 44 

 fisheries of, .54 

 Lescarbot's description of 



whale fishery in, 16 

 Sagard-Theodat's observations 



on whales in, 19 

 voyage of the Grace of Bris- 



toll to, 16 

 whale fishery in, 59, 60, 70 

 whales in, 13. 66 

 St. Lawrence River, Cliarlevoix on whales found in, 

 36 

 sulphurbottom of. 44 

 whales in, 14. 36 

 Santa Lucia Id., whale fishery at, 61 

 Sarda, 13 



Sardaco Baleac, 366 

 Sarde, 56, 367 

 Sars, (r. O., 1.52 



description of abdominal furrows of Ba- 

 IfTHOjiti'ra jiliysaliis, 139 

 color of Bahi'iioffi'ni mits- 

 ciiliis. 161 

 Baliviioptera phys- 

 alus. 120 

 dorsal fin of Bahenoptera 



musculus, 171 

 dorsal fin of Norwegian 



humpback, 227 

 pectoral fins of Balanipp- 

 tera musculus, 173 

 diagnosis of Balmioptera aeuto-rnstrata- 

 193 

 Balcenoptera musculus, 149 



