330 
Scammon, C. M., 269 
cetological works of, 58 
collection of whalebone by, 57 
description of Balcenoptera velif- 
era, 277 
diagnosis of Balenoptera david- 
soni, 58 
figures of Megaptera versabilis by, 
279 
Rhachianectes 
by, 288 
measurements of a Balcenoptera 
sulfureus, 285 
Balenoptera 
velifera, 278 
Megaptera ver- 
sabilis, 274 
notes on color of Megaptera versabil- 
is, 272 
on characters of Balcenoptera sulfu- 
reus, 284 
Balenoptera velif- 
era, 277 
Megaptera versabil- 
is, 271 
Rhachianectes glau- 
cus, 288 
on marine mammals of north- 
west coast of North America, 58, 
59, 269, 278 
on the scrag right whale in the 
North Pacific, 38 
on the sulphurbottom of the north- 
west coast, 90 
statements regarding Balcenoptera 
davidsoni, 292 
Scammon’s species of whales, 78 
types of, 3 
glaucus 
Scoresby, Jr., W., 152 
note on the Greenland whale, 189 
Scrag whale, 37, 38, 41, 49, 71, 80 
Dudley’s, 40-42, 45, 49, 104 
Sharp-nosed whale, 53 
Sherwood, Geo. H., 4 
Shumagin Islands, Alaska, whales at the, 33 
Sibbaldius borealis, 90, 284 
Sibbaldius gigas, 90, 284 
Sibbaldius laticeps, 81, 87 
Sibbaldius sulfureus, 48, 78, 90, 270, 284 
original description of, 90 
Sibbaldius tectirostris, 48, 85, 147, 285 
characters of, 85 
Cope’s notice of, in ‘‘ American 
Naturalist,” 89 
identity of, 87 
type-skeleton of, measurements 
of, 86, 88 
measurements 
of the cervi- 
cal vertebrze 
of, 89 
ribs of, 138 
THE WHALEBONE WHALES OF THE WESTERN NORTH ATLANTIC. 
Sibbaldius_tectirostris, type-skeleton of, scapula of, 143 
type-specimen of, 85, 132 
Sibbaldius tuberosus, 48, 81 
identity of, 84 
original description of, 82 
type-specimen of, 81 
account of the 
capture of 
the, 82 
Sletbag, 264 
Smith, John, allusion to finbacks on coast of Maine, 21 
voyage of, to New England, 21 
Smith’s Sound, whales in, 11 
Snook’s Arm, Newfoundland, list of finbacks taken 
at, 112 
whaling station at, 
111 
Souffleur, 30, 31, 36 
South American sulphurbottom, 183 
Southampton, New York, colonial whaling companies 
of, 75 
Species among cetaceans, 3 
Spermaceti, 36 
Spermaceti whale, 37 
Spermaceti whales at Bahama Islands, 29 
Stafford, Richard, letter on whale fishery at Bermuda, 
28 
Starbuck, Alex., history of American whale fishery, 
68 
on early fishery laws, 23 
Steipe-Reydus, 46 
Stejneger, L., 295 
account of a finback on Bering Island, 
283 
Steller, G. W., observations on whales of Alaska, 33 
Steypiredr, 58 
Stone, Witmer, 4 
Strait of Belle Isle, whale fishery in the, 71, 72 
Struthers, J., monograph of Megaptera longimana, 
212 
Sulphurbottom whale, 44, 54, 58, 146, 149, 156, 161, 
297 
diagnosis of, 299 
South American, 1838 
Sulphurbottom whale of Iceland, 58 
Sulphurbottom whale of Newfoundland, color of, 162 
Sulphurbottom whale of Northwest Coast, 78, 90, 
284 
Systema Naturze of Linnzeus, 1 
Taliaferro, Edwin, whale captured by, 81 
Taliaferro, P. A., account of the capture of the type- 
specimen of Sibbaldius tuberosus, 81, 82 
Tampon whale, 45 
Thompson, Benj. F., history of Long Island, New 
York, 74 
Thompson, J. P., description of Balceenoptera acuto- 
rostrata from Portland, Me., 193 
Thorfinn Karlsefne, Saga of, 6 
Thrasher, 44 
Tikagulik, 51 
