INDEX. 
Bangs, Outram, 4 
Barbadoes, whale fishery about the, 61 
Basque whale, 57, 60 
Basque whale fishery, 13, 50, 60 
Fischer’s statements regarding 
the, 266 
Basques, acquaintance of, with the ‘‘Grand Bay ” 
whale, 12 
Beaked whale, 46 
Beard, D. C., 4 
Bearded whale, 12 
Beauregard, H., 152 
Belle Isle, Strait of, 45 
colonial whale fishery in, 70 
Belon, P., 35 
Beluga, 14, 36 
Beneden (Van). See Van Beneden. 
Bering Island, finback observed by Dr. L. Stejneger 
at, 283 
Bermuda, humpback whale of, 40 
humpback-whale fishery, 29 
Verrill’s statement regarding whales at, 30 
whale fishery at, 27, 29 
whales of, 72 
Bickford, J., type of Megaptera osphyia captured 
by, 91 
Biscay whale, 15, 267, 298 
Blaahval, 171, 173 
Blackfish, 44, 54 
Black whale, 78, 79, 249, 297, 298 
captured in Charleston (8. C.) harbor, 62 
Blake, J. H., 268 
notes on Baleenoptera acuto-rostrata 195 
Blue whale, 149, 150, 162 
Cocks’s measurements of, 150 
Bocourt’s figure of Balenoptera acuto-rostrata, 192 
Boddeert’s edition of Linnzeus’s Systema Nature, 
American species of whales mentioned in, 41 
Bolau, H., summaries of natural history and geo- 
graphical distribution of cetaceans, 63 
Bonnaterre, Abbé, species of Baleena mentioned by, 45 
Tableau Encyclopedique of, 44 
Bonnycastle, Sir Richard, observations on whales of 
Newfoundland, 53 
Boodps, 211 
Boty, Iver, narrative of, 6 
Bowhead, 5, 39, 42-44 
Bradford’s and Winslow's Journal of Plymouth Col- 
ony, 22 
Brickell’s natural history of North Carolina, 37 
Brimley, H. H., 4 
on right-whale fishery around Beau- 
fort Inlet, North Carolina, 2' 
Brisson, M, J., species of Balceena mentioned by, 40 
Régne Animal of, American species of 
whales mentioned in, 40 
British Museum, Flower’s list of cetacea in the, 62 
Brookhaven, New York, colonial whaling at, 75 
Brown, Robert, on Greenland cetacea, 61 
on Greenland finbacks, 189 
Buckelwal, 61 
Bull, Captain, 4 
323 
Bunch whale, 37 
Buzzard’s Bay, Mass., 6 
Cabot Steam Whaling 
California finback, 66 
California gray whale, 54, 66, 80, 287 
California, gray-whale fishery of, 61 
Jouan’s observations on the whales of, 54 
whales at Monterey, 33 
San Simeon Bay, 68 
whales off coast of, 67 
Monterey County, 67 
Santa Barbara County, 66 
San Luis Obispo County, 66 
California humpback, 66 
California ranger, 54 
California sulphurbottom, 66 
Californian whaling stations, 62 
Canada, Gaspé, whales at, 19, 20 
whales of, 20, 44 
Cape Cod, Mass., colonial whale fishery at, 69 
whales in Barnstable Bay, 22 
whales of, 22 
Cape Farewell, whales near, 9, 10 
Cape May, N. J., whales killed at, 76 
Cape Sable, whales seen near, 22 
Cape St. Lucas, whales at, 32 
Capellini’s figures of skull of Balenoptera acuto-ros- 
trata, 198 
Carolina, Catesby’s natural history of, 37 
Carolinas, Lawson’s observations on whales of the, 36 
Cartier, allusions to cetaceans by, 14 
second voyage of, 14 
Catesby’s natural history of Carolina, 87 
Caulkins, Frances M., history of New London, Con- 
necticut, 7: 
Central America, Oviedo’s account of whales on 
Pacific coast of, 31 
Ulloa’s reference to whales on Pa- 
cific coast of, 32 
Cetacea, geographical distribution of, 207 
Company, 4, 111, 114, 149 
remarks regarding species among, 206 
Champlain, description of whale fishery in New 
France, 17 
voyages of, 18 
Charlevoix’s history and general description of New 
France, 36 
Clark, A. Howard, history of American whale fish- 
ery, 68 
Classification of whales, Anderson’s, 39 
Klein’s, 38 
Coat, Captain, remarks on geography of Hudson 
Bay, 13 
Cocks, A. H., 152 
notes on color of Norwegian hump- 
backs, 216 
remarks on length of Balenoptera 
musculus, 150 
statistics of length of Balenoptera 
musculus taken at Norwegian sta- 
tions, 154 
statistics of length of Megaptera, 213 
