PLATE 11. 



Outlines of the crania of New England whalebone whales, from above. 



Fig. 1. North Atlantic Right Whale (Eubdaena glacialis). After the photograph by True (1904, 



Plate 42, fig. 1) of a Long Island, N. Y., specimen. 

 Fig. 2. Common Finback Whale (Bcdaenoptera physalus). After the photograph by True (1904, 



Plate 1, fig. 3) of a Cape Cod specimen in the U. S. National Museum, no. 16039. 

 Fig. 3. Blue Whale (Balaenoptera musculus). After van Beneden and Gervais, Oste"ographie des 



C&acea, 1868-79, Plate 12-13, fig. 25. 

 Fig. 4. Little Piked Whale (Bdaenopiera acuto-rostrata). After the photograph by True (1904, Plate 



22, fig. 1) of a specimen from Harwichport, Mass., in the U. S. National Museum, no. 20931. 

 Fig. 5. Atlantic Humpback Whale (Megaptera nodosa). After the photograph by True (1904, Plate 



29, fig. 2) of a specimen from Cape Cod in the U. S. National Museum, no. 21492. 



Abbreviations: /, orbital process of frontal; i, intermaxillary; m, maxillary; n, nasal; s, squamosal; 

 so, supraoccipital. 



