148 THE WHALEBONE WHALES OF THE WESTERN NORTH ATLANTIC. 
In the work previously cited (8, 171), Van Beneden and Gervais seem to 
regard the species described by Holboll under the Eskimo name A7iporkarnak as 
probably representing this species, but Eschricht was in doubt as to this, and cer- 
tainly Holbdll’s description is not favorable to this view. It is in part as follows: 
“ Above on the head it had many rows of high tubercles of rounded form, 3 to 
4 in. broad, and perhaps as high. They were located at equal distances from each 
other; hence, in rows. . . . The furrows on the neck and breast reach about 
as far back as in B. longimana | Megaptera|, but stand much wider apart. The 
pectorals, which must be regarded as long, were, however, shorter than in B. 
longimana. They are quite narrow, and have some irregular emarginations, one 
large emargination is to be seen about in the middle. . . . The color 
whale, —hblack on the back and on the sides, white on the belly; the underside of 
the pector als and flukes white, on the latter with a black band.” (S797) 
It is clear, I think, that this was a Humpback and not a Finback whale.  Es- 
chricht states that Holb6él] saw this whale only from the deck of a vessel, and asks 
very pertinently how he knew that it was the same as the A7porkarnak of the Es- 
kimos. Fabricius, doubtless, employed this native name correctly, and certainly 
for a very different animal from that described by Holbdll, as above. 
