42 THE WHALEBONE WHALES OF THE WESTERN NORTH ATLANTIC. 
Humpback and Scrag whales under one name as in Gmelin’s work. Turton omits 
all bibliographical references.’ 
While these various editions and translations of Linneus’s works were in 
course of publication, numerous other systematic works on a more or less independent 
basis made their appearance. One of the earliest of these was O. F. Miller’s Pro- 
dromus of the Zoblogy of Denmark (including Greenland), published in 1776." It 
is a list of species under Latin binomials and polynomials, or diagnoses, with the 
Norwegian, Icelandic, and Greenlandic names added. The baleen whales are all 
included in the genus Lalena, and the following have Greenlandic names: B. 
mysticetus, Arbee or Arbavirksoak [Bowhead]; 6. physalus, Keporkak,’ or 
Keporkarsoak | Finback]; 4. albicans, Killelluak [White whale]. 
The next important systematist, Erxleben, prefaces the list of cetacea in his ex- 
cellent Systema Regni Animalis (1777)* with the remark that the species are but 
imperfectly known. The baleen whales are all retained in the genus Lalena, 
and the species are the Linnean ones with the addition of B. gibbosa. Of DL. 
mysticetus he gives the habitat as toward the North Pole, chiefly about Green- 
land and Spitzbergen, and among his numerous authorities cites Egede, Anderson, 
and Cranz. He is in doubt about the Nordeaper, and does not separate it for- 
mally from mysticetus. B. physalus is given as occurring “in the European and 
American Ocean,” and the authorities cited include Egede (Finne-fiske), Anderson, 
and Cranz (Finnfisch). Erxleben is in doubt about the Pflockfisch (Dudley’s 
Humpback), but thinks it may belong with physalus, which is, of course, incorrect. 
The habitat given is “about New England.” He cites it at second hand from Klein, 
Anderson, and others. The habitat of b. boops is in “the northern ocean.” 
Anderson and Cranz (Jupiterfisch) are cited among the authorities. 4. gibbosa is 
Dudley’s Scrag whale, which he takes at second hand from Klein, Anderson, and 
other compilers. No habitat is given? 
Three years later, in 1780, Otto Fabricius, who was for several years a 
missionary in Greenland, published his well-known Fauna Groenlandica, a very 
concise and judicious work, and one whose influence on zoblogical nomenclature 
has continued to the present day. In treating of the cetaceans it is hardly to 
be expected that he would escape errors entirely, especially considering the back- 
ward state of cetology at the time, but his descriptions are for the most part 
remarkably clear. 
‘For Czenpinski’s Totius Regni Animalis Genera in Classes et Ordines Linnzana methodo 
digesta, 1778, see Allen’s Bibliography, p. 468, No. 346. 
*Miuter, O. F., Zodlogiz Danicz Prodromus, 1776, pp. vili, 6-8. 
*On p. viii of the introduction Miiller transfers this name to B. doops [Humpback] on the 
authority of Fabricius. 
“Pp. 601-611. 
* Dr. J. A. Allen in his Bibliography of Cetacea, p. 467, No. 341, remarks that B. grbdosa of 
Erxleben is not the Scrag whale of Dudley, “as usually stated, which is one of the ‘species obscure ’ 
not formally recognized.” This is an error. The only one of the “ species obscure ” from Dudley 
cited by Erxleben, on p. 617 is the “ Dudleji Balena Klein.” This is Dudley’s sperm whale. On 
the other hand, all the bibliographical citations under Z. gibéosa and the diagnosis refer back to 
Dudley’s Scrag whale. 
