330 



THE WHALEBONE WHALES OF THE WESTERN NORTH ATLANTIC. 



Scamiiion. C. M.. 369 



cetological works of. 58 

 collection of whalebone by, 57 

 description of Balcenoptera velif- 

 " era, 277 



diagnosis of Balcenoptera david- 



soni, 58 

 figures of Megaptera versabilis by, 

 279 

 Ehachianeetes glaucus 

 by, 288 

 measurements of a Balcenoptera 



sulfureus, 285 

 Balcenoptera 



velifera, 278 

 Megaptera ver- 

 sabilis, 274 

 notes on color of Megaptera versabil- 

 is, 272 

 on cliaracters of Balcenoptera sulfn- 

 retis. 384 

 Balcenoptera velif- 

 era, 277 

 Megaptera versabil- 

 is, 271 

 Rhachianectes glau- 

 cus, 288 

 on marine mammals of north- 

 west coast of North America, 58, 

 59, 369, 278 

 on tlie scrag right whale in the 



North Pacific, 38 

 on the sulphurbottom of the north- 

 west coast, 90 

 statements regarding Balcenoptera 

 davidsoni, 293 

 Scammon's species of whales, 78 



types of, 3 

 Scoresby, Jr., W., 152 



note on the Greenland whale, 189 

 Scrag whale, 37, 38, 41, 49, 71, 80 



Dudley's, 40-43, 45, 49, 104 

 Sharp-nosed whale, 53 

 Sherwood, Geo. H.. 4 



Shumagin Islands, Alaska, whales at the, 33 

 Sibbaldius borealis, 90, 284 

 Sibbaldius gigas, 90, 384 

 Sibbcddius laticeps, 81, 87 

 Sibbaldius sulfureus, 48, 78, 90, 370. 284 



original description of, 90 

 Sibbaldius tectirostris. 48, 85, 147. 285 

 characters of, 85 

 Cope's notice of, in " American 



Naturali-st," 89 

 identity of, 87 



type-skeleton of, measurements 

 of, 86, 88 

 measurements 

 of the cervi- 

 cal vertebrae 

 of, 89 

 ribs of, 138 



Sibbcdd i II sjccf irost ris, type-skeleton of, scapula of, 143 



type-specimen of. 85, 132 

 Sibbaldius tii.berosus, 48, 81 



identity of. 84 



original description of, 82 



type-specimen of, 81 



account of the 

 capture of 

 the, 83 

 Sletbag, 264 

 Smith. John, allusion to finbacks on coast of Maine, 21 



voyage of, to New England, 31 

 Smith's Sound, whales in, 11 



Snook's Arm. Newfoundland, list of finbacks taken 



at. 113 

 whaling station at. 

 Ill 

 Souffleur. 30. 31. 36 

 South American sulphurbottom, 183 

 Southampton. New York, colonial whaling companies 



of. 75 

 Species among cetaceans, 3 

 Spermaceti. 36 

 Spermaceti whale, 37 

 Spermaceti whales at Bahama Islands, 39 

 Stafford, Richard, letter on whale fishery at Bermuda, 



28 

 Starbuck, Alex., history of American whale fishery. 

 68 

 on early fishery laws, 23 

 Steipe-Reydus, 46 

 Stejneger, L., 295 



account of a finback on Bering Island, 

 283 

 Steller, G. W. , observations on whales of Alaska, 33 

 Steypiredr, 58 

 Stone. Witmer. 4 



Strait of Belle Isle, whale fishery in the. 71, 73 

 Struthers. J., monograph of Megaptera longimana, 



312 

 Sulphurbottom whale, 44. 54. 58. 146, 149. 156, 161, 

 397 

 diagnosis of. 399 

 South American, 183 

 Sulphurbottom whale of Iceland. 58 

 Sulphurbottom whale of Newfoundland, color of, 163 

 Sulphurbottom whale of Northwest Coast, 78, 90, 



384 

 Systema Naturae of Linnaaus, 1 



Taliaferro, Edwin, whale captured by. 81 

 Taliaferro, P. A., account of the capture of the tjpe- 



specimen of Sibbcddius ttiberosiis, 81, 82 

 Tampon whale, 45 

 Thompson, Benj. F., history of Long Island, New 



York, 74 

 Thompson. J. P., description of Balcenoptera acuto- 



rostrata from Portland, Me., 193 

 Thorfinn Karlsefne, Saga of, 6 

 Thraslier, 44 

 Tikagulik, 51 



