LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. 



Plate I.* Fig. 1. The Sperm Whale, Physeter macroceplialiis, Liu. Found everywhere 

 in the warmer seas. 



Fig. 2. The California Gray Whale, Bhachianectes glaucus Cope. Arctic Seas 

 to Lower California. 



Fig. 3. The North Pacific Hump-back, l/e^/a^/erat'ersa&ins Cope. Arctic Seas 

 to Lower California. 

 Plate II. Fig. 4. The Sulphur-bottom, Sihbaldius sulfarcus Cope. Arctic Seas to Cal- 

 ifornia. 



Fig. 5. The Finback, or Oregon Finner, Bdlanoptcra vclifera Cope. Arctic 

 Seas to California. 



Fig. C. The Pacific Right-whale, Balcena sieholdii, var. japonica Gray. Arc- 

 tic, Bering, and Ochotsk Seas. Lower California. Japan ? 



Fig. 7. The Bow-head, or Great Polar Whale, Balcena mi/sticeitis Lin. Ber- 

 ing, Ochotsk, and Arctic Seas. 



*The figures of whales and of apparatus used in the whale-fisheries are taken from 

 the important and remarkably interesting volume entitled "The Marine Mammals of 

 the Northwestern Coast of North America described and illustrated; together with an 

 account of the American Whale-Fishery." By Charles M. Scammon, Captain United 

 States Revenue Marine. San Francisco: John H. Carmany i& Co. New York : G. P- 

 Putnam & Sons. 1874. 4to. 27 plates. 

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