212 THE WHALEBONE WHALES OF THE WESTERN NORTH ATLANTIC. 
Struthers’s elaborate monograph, published in 1889 (87) in Sars’s Fortsatte Bidrag, 
1881 (80), where there is an excellent figure of the exterior, in Cocks’s accounts of 
the Finmark fisheries (15-19), and in Van Beneden’s works. 
For the Greenland species we have Fabricius’s description (41, 36) and the 
extended discussion in Eschricht’s Untersuchungen ueber nordischen Wallthiere, 
1849 (37), and Van Beneden’s comments on specimens distributed among various 
European museums by Eschricht. 
Specimens from the Atlantic coasts of the United States and southward are 
not common. There are two skeletons in the National Museum, one in the Phila- 
delphia Academy of Sciences (type of JZ. bellicosa, incomplete), one at Niagara, N. 
Y. (type of JZ. osphyia), one in the Public Museum, Milwaukee, Wis. All these 
I have seen and examined. I also examined three fresh specimens at the Snook’s 
Arm whaling station, Newfoundland, in 1899. 
SIZE. 
The most satisfactory data relating to the size of the European Humpback are 
the measurements obtained by Cocks from the whales at the Finmark whaling stations 
in 1885 and 1886 (17 and 18). ‘These measurements are chiefly in Norwegian feet, 
without inches, and are probably taken around the curves. They are more likely to 
overstate than understate the actual length. To compare with these, the measure- 
ments made by the whalers at Balena Station, Newfoundland, in 1900 and 1901, 
will be given. Inaddition, we have the measurements of various specimens stranded 
on the coasts of Europe and the United States at different times. 
During my stay at the Snook’s Arm Station, Newfoundland, in 1899, three 
Humpbacks were taken, having the following length from tip of snout to notch of 
flukes along the curve of the back: 
MEGAPTERA NODOSA (BONNATERRE). SNOOK’S ARM, NEWFOUNDLAND. 1899. 
Capture No. Date. | Sex. Total Length. 
5 Aug. 9, 1899 } 42 ft. 2 in. 
6 oe oe Lay ce) 45 ae ee 
21 a os) 2 Ay 2) 
The following specimens were taken at Balena Station, Newfoundland, in 1900 
and 1901, and measured by the whalers. ‘The measurement in each case is probably 
a maximum, along the curve of the back. 
‘Contained a male feetus 3 ft. 34 in. long. * Contained a male foetus 3 ft. 9 in. long. 
