INDEX. 



331 



Tobago Id., whale fishery at, 61 



Torquetnada's account of Viscaino's voyages to Lower 



California. 33 

 Towiisend, Clias. H., 27.^, 390, 294 



on California gray whale. 

 RItiicIiiaiicvtes ijlaucus, (io 

 Trumpo, 28 

 Tunnolik, 58, 146. 189 

 Turner. Sir Win., loi 



figure of Bahviiopfera acido-ros- 



trata by, 196 

 on length of Longnld(h-y whale. 

 152, 155 

 Tm'ton's translation of Linna!us"s .Systetna Natura', 



American species of whales mentionetl in, 41 

 Types of Cope's and Scammon's species, 3 



UUoa, Francis, on whales in the Gulf of California. 



32 

 Unalaska, finback whales at. 68 

 United States Fish Commission, 193 



reports and bulletins 

 of, 63, 65 



Vaagehval, 51, 201 



Van Beneden. P. -J.. 3, 151. 153 



cetological writings of, 54 

 comments on whales of west 



coast of North America, 57 

 comparison of skeletons of 



humpback whales, 54 

 natural history of cetaceans of 



seas of Europe, 54 

 on BaUenoptera davidsoni, 396 

 on Baketwptera stilfiireus, 286 

 on Balifnoptera vi'lifem, 384 

 on geographical distribution of 



Balcena and Megaph'ni. 57 

 on geographical distribution of 



finbacks, 57 

 on geographical distribution of 



right whales, 55 

 on right whales on Atlantic coast 



of United States, 57 

 on the affinities of Rhachian- 



ectes, 292 

 remarks on Balivna cisarctica, 

 56 



Bidu'na cinaivtica 

 and hiscai/cnsis, 

 55, 263, 264 

 right whale taken 

 in Charleston 

 harbor, 57 

 remarks on size of Mrgaptera, 



214 

 summary of osteological charac- 

 ters of Balcenoptera muscnliis. 

 181 

 Van Beneden, P.-J., and Gervais, P., osteography of 



cetacea, 55 



Van Beneden, P. J., and (:iiv:iis, I'., remarks re- 



giirding Me- 

 (injilera os- 

 pliijia and 

 bovps, 243 

 Van Breda, J. (i. S., 151 



Vati der Donck, A., description of the New Nether- 

 lands, 23, 26 

 note on whale fishery in Dela- 

 ware Bay, 26 

 Variation, individual, 3 



Verrill, A. E., statement regarding whales at Ber- 

 muda, 30 

 Vinvisch, 41 



Viscaino's note on whales at Monterey, California, 33 

 Viscaino's voyages along coast of Lower California, 32 

 Viscaino's and Aguilar's voyage in 1603, 33 



Ward. F. A.,4 



Washington, whales off Cai)e Mattery, 67 



whales off yuillihute River, 67 

 Watson, John F., annals of Philadelphia, 76 

 Waymouth, description of Indians' manner of killing 



whales, 20 

 Weeden, Wm. B., on colonial whale fishery of New- 

 England, 75 

 West Coast whales, specimens of, 369 

 West Indies, Du Tetre's remarks on whales at the, 31 

 humpback-whale fishery in the, 61 

 whales of the, 30 

 Whalebone whales, American specimens of, in Euro- 

 pean museums, 308 

 first authentic notice of, on east 



coast of North America, 14 

 nomenclature of the, 1 

 Whale fishery, American, Douglass's remarks on the. 



71 

 Felt's notes on the, 73 

 history of the, 68 

 Lanman on the. 76 

 Basque, 60 



on Newfoundland banks, 60 

 colonial, of Long Island. New York, 73 

 of New England, 75 

 of New York. 73, 74 

 records of the, 68 

 Douglass's remarks on the American, 



71 

 Lindeman on the, 59 

 North Pacific gray whale, 59 

 North Pacific humpback whale, 59 

 North Pacific right whale, 59 

 of Bermuda, 37-29 

 of Carolina, 44 

 of Davis Strait, 70 

 of Delaware Bay. 34, 36, 76 

 of Gulf of St. Lawrence, 16, 59, 70, 73 

 of Maine, 64, 65 

 of New England, 44 

 of Newfoundland, 3, 70 

 of New France, Chainplain's descrip- 

 tion of, 17 



