40 THE WHALEBONE WHALES OF THE WESTERN NORTH ATLANTIC. 
(1) With a dorsal fin. [=Zalenoptera.] 
(a) The Finfish. [= Aalenoptera physalus.] 
(4) The Jupiter, or Jupiter-fish. [Includes (with a query) the Humpback of the 
Bermudas, and the Lal/ena vera of Rondelet, and Balenoptera physalus. | 
(2) With one or more knobs [ Pucke/n]. 
(a) “The Swordfish of our Greenland voyagers.” [=Orcinus.] 
(4) The American “ Pflockfisch.” [=The Humpback of Dudley. ] 
(c) The “ Knotenfisch” or “ Knobbelfisch.” [=Scrag whale of Dudley.] 
On page 197, Anderson discusses the identity of the Jupiter-fish and remarks 
that he cannot state positively what it is. He gives, however, an excellent descrip- 
tion, derived from certain fishermen, of one killed in 1723, which is clearly Balenop- 
tera physalus. He suspects that this is the same as the whale occurring in the 
Bermudas, described by the anonymous writer of 1665 in the Phdlosophical Trans- 
actions, and there said to resemble the “ Jubartes”+; but in this he was mistaken as 
the whale there described was the Humpback. He gives Latin polynomial names 
to Dudley’s Humpback and Serag whale, but adds nothing to their natural history. 
Anderson’s classification is less formal than Klein’s and is hardly an improve- 
ment upon it. The general accuracy of his natural history notes, however, and his 
earnestness and instinct for suspecting errors, though he could not always prove 
them such, are especially noteworthy. His only contributions to the natural history 
of species of whalebone whales occurring in American waters are the notes on the 
Greenland whale, 2. mystécetus, which he had from the whalers, and possibly the 
description of B. physalus (?), under the name of Jupiter-fish. 
Brisson’s Régne Animal, published in 1756, contains mention of the species 
described by earlier authors, but no new information. All the whalebone whales 
are included in the genus Lalwna. The species to which American localities are 
assigned are the “common Greenland whale” (= Lalena mysticetus), “the whale 
of New England” (=the Humpback of Dudley), and “the whale with six humps” 
(= the Scrag whale of Dudley). To these is added “the Gibbar,” which is “ fre- 
quently found in India and in the New World.” ‘The synonymy given in connec- 
tion with this species includes most of the natural history writers who preceded 
Brisson, and it is not clear from which of them he derived the information that it 
occurred in America, though probably he took it from Klein, who in turn refers 
back to Dudley’s account of the Finback, in the Philosophical Transactions. 
The next work to be considered —the tenth edition of Linneus’s Systema 
Naturee (1758) — though it marks the beginning of a new period as regards 
zodlogical classification and nomenclature, is of very little importance in relation 
to American cetology. But four species of baleen whales are mentioned, and the 
statement that Balena mysticetus “lives in the Greenland Ocean” is the sole allu- 
sion to anything American. Even this may refer to Spitzbergen rather than to 
Greenland proper, or “Old Greenland.” ‘The twelfth edition (1766) mentions 
that Balena physalus “lives in the European and American Ocean,” but nothing 
* Philos. Trans., 1, 1665, No. 1, p. 12. * Page 106. 
