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ALLEN: NEW ENGLAND WHALEBONE WHALES. 



all " instead of from tip of upper jaw to notch of flukes. An 88-foot specimen recorded in the 

 Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society as taken at Bermuda in 1G65 must have been 

 a very extraordinary animal if the account can be accepted, but the evidence of later investi- 

 gations is rather against it. I am unable to add to the recorded measurements of the species. 

 True (1904, p. 222) gives the following measurements of a Newfoundland female. 



External Measurements of a liumpbaek Whale. 



Length, tip of snout to notch of flukes 

 Tip of snout to eye (center) 

 " " " " posterior insertion of dorsal fin 

 " " " " blowhole 



" " " " anterior insertion of ])cctorals 

 " " " " axilla 

 Vertical height of dorsal fin 

 Length of pectoral from head of humerus 



" " " " posterior insertion 



Breadth across flukes 

 From notch of flukes to anus (center) 

 " " " " clitoris 

 " " " " nav(.'\ 

 Depth of caudal peduncle at insertion of flukes 



Fl. In. 



Meters 



True also gives the proportions in percentages of total length of a female specimen taken 

 at Cape Cod, Mass., and now in the U. S. National Museum. These proportions are of a 

 younger female and are of interest in comparison with the adult and larger animal from New- 

 foundland, the measurements of which I have copied above. Following are these percentages 

 for the two specimens as given by True. 



