INDEX. 
Acosta, Joseph de, fable of Indians killing whales, 27, 
31, 35, 37, 41, 42 
Agaphelide, 47 
Agaphelus, 80, 104, 105, 270, 287 
Agaphelus gibbosus, 47, 56, 104, 105 : 
measurements of, 106 
note on, 103 
Agaphelus glaucus, 80, 81, 104 
Alaska, whales of, 33 
Aleutian Islands, whales at the, 33 
Allen, J. A., bibliography of cetology, 62 
list of cetaceans of Massachusetts, 58 
opinion regarding Balena cisarctica, 
264 
Amagansett, Long Island, whales sighted off, 63 
Ambergris, 35 
American cetaceans, first references to, 6 
American specimens of Baleenoptera physalus, 131 
American whale tishery, Clark’s history of the, 68 
Douglass’s remarks on the, 
val 
Felt’s notes on the, 72 
Lanman on the, 76 
Starbuck’s history of the, 68 
American zodlogists, writings of, on whalebone 
whales, 34 
Anderson, John, résumé on 
waters, 39 
Arbavirksoak, 42 
Arbec, 42 
Arctic Megaptera, 98, 99 
Ashley, George H., 4 
Atlantic right whale, 23 
Holder’s memoir on the, 62 
Atwood, N. E., notes on cetacea of Massachusetts, 
58 
on the scrag whale, 37 
Aurivillius, C. W. 8., 152 
whales in northern 
Baffin, William, first voyage of, 10 
in Wolstenholme Sound, 12 
letter of, to Sir John Wolstenholme, 
10 
second voyage of, 10 
Baffin Bay, whales of, 6, 10 
Bahama Islands, spermaceti whales at the, 29 
Bahia finner, 103 
Baia de Ballenas, whales seen in the, 32 
Baleena, 40, 42, 48, 79, 287 
Baleena, Flower’s remarks on, 63 
mentioned by Bonnaterre, 45 
Brisson, 40 
Erxleben, 42 
species of, distribution of, 56 
Van Beneden on the geographical distribu- 
tion of, 57 
Baleena albicans, 42 
Balena antipodarum, 265 
Baleena antipodum, 266 
Balena australis, 50, 63, 263, 265, 266 
Balena biscayensis, 15, 39, 55, 57, 60, 244, 262 
Basque fishery for, 13 
ribs, Gasco’s description of, 257 
Baleena bodps, 41, 46, 51, 61, 243 
Balena cisarctica, 3, 55, 56, 57, 60, 638, 78, 79, 263-267 
description of the type-skeleton 
of, 79 
measurements of the type-skele- 
ton of, 79 
note by Cope on, 61 
type-skull of, nasals in, 252 
Van Beneden’s remarks on, 56 
Baleena gibbosa, 41, 42, 45, 104, 105 
Baleena glacialis, 23, 39, 45, 68, 244, 266, 270, 297 
American specimens of, in Euro- 
pean museums, 308 
chevrons, 256 
color, 249 
Guldberg’s remarks on, 249 
of American specimens of, 250 
diagnosis of, 298 
length of American specimensof, 246 
European specimens of, 
245 
measurements of, 247, 268 
opinions of cetologists regarding, 
262 
phalanges, 260 
number of, 261 
proportions of, 246 
ribs, 256 
measurements of, 257, 258 
scapula, 259 
proportions of, 260 
skeleton, measurements of, 255 
skull, 251 
length of, 267 
° measurements of, 253 
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