328 
Megaptera versabilis, measurements of, by Scam- 
mon, 271, 274 
measurements of, compared 
with those of Megaptera no- 
dosa, 275 
original description of, 102 
pectorals, 275 
Scammon’s figures of, 279 
skeleton of, from Washington, 
276 
tubercles, 275 
whalebone, 276 
Megapteride, 48 
Miller, Jr., G.S., 295 
Mobjack Bay, Virginia, 84 
Moller, H. P. C., description of Balceenoptera muscu- 
lus in Greenland, 189 
Miller, O. F., Prodromus of Zodlogy of Denmark, 
Greenland whales mentioned in, 42 
Miller, P. L. S., annotated edition of Linnzeus’s 
Systema Nature, American species of whales 
mentioned in, 41 
Myers, A. H., 193 
Nantucket, whales at, 21 
Narwhal, 35 
Natural histories of the seventeenth century, 34 
eighteenth century, 35 
nineteenth century, 46 
Nieuw Engelandsche Penvisch, 41 
New England coast, whales of the, 20, 37, 64 
New England, colonial whale fishery of, 75 
New England finback, 71 
New England humpback, 71 
New England right whale, 71 
Newfoundland, Balena Station, length of Megaptera 
at, 213 
Bonnycastle’s observations on the 
whales of, 53 
humpback whales of, 44 
length of specimens of Megaptera no- 
dosa at Snook’s Arm, 213 
list of specimens of Balcnoptera 
musculus taken at Balena Station, 
1901, 153 
measurements of Balenoptera mus- 
culus at Balena Station, 157 
Reeks’s article on zoology of, 60 
Sir Humphrey Gilbert’s voyage to, 
16 
whale fishery at, 2, 70, 111 
whales observed about, 11, 13, 66 
Newfoundland and Norwegian specimens of Bale- 
noptera musculus, comparative measurements of, 
159, 160 
Newfoundland finbacks, 66, 111, 112 
Newfoundland humpback, 66, 111, 278 
Newfoundland specimens of, common finback, 84 
Megaptera nodosa, 
measurements of, 222 
Newfoundland sulphurbottom, color of, 162 
dorsal fin of, 172 
THE WHALEBONE WHALES OF THE WESTERN NORTH ATLANTIC. 
Newfoundland whale fishery of the sixteenth and 
seventeenth centuries, 12 
Newfoundland whaling stations, 4 
New Jersey, Cape May, whales killed at, 76 
Watson’s notes on whales on coast of, 76 
whale fishing on coast of, 76 
New London County Historical Society, 73 
New York, colonial whale fishery of, 73, 74 
Hudson River, whales in, 23 
Long Island, colonial whaling at, 75 
whale captured in Peconic 
Bay, 73 
whales at, 24, 75 
Thompson’s history of Long Island, 74 
New York Bay, whales in, 23 
Niagara Falls Museum, 4 
Nielsen, A., 4 
Nieremberg, J. E., 35 
Nordeaper, 39, 41, 42, 44, 45, 49, 58, 56, 249, 250, 263, 
264, 298 
North American whalebone whales, chronological 
account of contributions to the natural history 
of, 34 
North Atlantic right whale, 244 
diagnosis of the, 298 
North Carolina, Beaufort, partial skeleton of Buleena 
glacialis found at, 260 
Brickell’s natural history of, 37 
whale fishery on coast of, 26 
North Pacific, humpback of the, 78, 102 
Pechuel’s observations on whales of 
the, 60 
right whale of the, 59 
North Pacific whales, comparison of, with those of 
the North Atlantic, 27 
Dall’s list of, 59 
observations on, 269 
specimens of, 269 
Norwegian and Newfoundland specimens of Balc- 
noptera musculus, comparative measurements 
of, 159, 160 
Norwegian Balcenoptera physalus, size of, 113 
Norwood, Richard, observations on whales at Ber- 
muda, 28 
Notre Dame Bay, Newfoundland, whales taken in, 
111 
Nyenhuis, J. T. B., 151 
O’Callaghan’s documents relating to colonial history 
of State of New York, 73 
Ocean City (N. J.) whale, 179, 182, 183, 189 
measurements of, 184 
nasal bones, 184 
phalanges, 185 
ribs, 185 
scapula, 186 
Oregon, whales on the coast of, mentioned by Lewis 
and Clark, 47 
Ostend whale, 151, 152, 158, 190 
scapula of, 187 
Oviedo, on whales of Pacific coast of Central America, 
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