288 ALLEN: NEW ENGLAND WHALEBONE WHALES. 



Megaptera nodosa (BONNATERRE). 



ATLANTIC HUMPBACK WHALE. 



PLATE 11, FIG. 5; PLATE 1(5 



SYNONYMY. 



1777. Balaam gibbosa Erxleben, Syst. Animalium, p. 610 (in part/. 



1780. Balaena boops Fabricius, Fauna Grocnlandica, p. 36; (also many later authors, but not of Linne, 1758, 



which is Balaenoptera physalus, young). 



1789. Balaena nodosa Bonnaterre, Tabl. Encycloped. et Method, des trois Regnes de la Nature, Cetologie, 



p. 5; True, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1898, vol. 21, p. 635. 



1832. Balaena longimana Rudolphi, Abhandl. K. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, p. 133-144, pi. 1-5. 



1834. Physcter gibbosa Dewhurst, Nat. Hist. Cetacea, p. 168. 



1837. Balaenoptera longimana Rapp, Die Cetaceen zoologisch-anat. dargestellt, p. 55. 



1845. Balaenoptera (Boops) boops Brandt, in Tchihatcheff's Voyage Sci. dans 1'Altai Oriental, p. 438. 



1846. Megaptera longimana Gray, Zool. Voyage Erebus and Terror, Mammalia, p. 17. 

 1846. Mcgaptcron longimana Gray, Zool. Voyage Erebus and Terror, Mammalia, p. 51. 

 1846. Megaptera americana Gray, Zool. Voyage Erebus and Terror, Mammalia, p. 17. 

 1846. Mcgaptcron americana Gray, Zool. Voyage Erebus and Terror, Mammalia, p. 52. 



1861. Kyphobalaena longimana van Beneden, Mem. Acad. Roy. Belg., Bruxelles, vol. 32, art. 3, p. 38. 



1862. Megaptera boops Lilljeborg, Upsala Universitets Arsskr., 1861-62, p. 88 (of separate). 



1865. \Eschrichtius robustus Gray, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 3, vol. 15, p. 493; Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 



1865, p. 40 (not of Lilljeborg). 



1865. Mcgaptcron boops Gray, Synopsis Whales and Dolphins British Museum, pi. 30 (jaws of a foetus). 



1865. M[cgaptcra] gigas Cope, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., p. 179 (crrorim). 



1865. Megaptera osphyia Cope, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., p. 180. 



1866. Megaptera longimana var. 2. moorei Gray, Cat. Seals and Whales British Museum, ed. 2, p. 122. 

 1868. Kyphobalaena kcporkak van Beneden, Bull. Acad. Roy. Belg., Bruxelles, ser. 2, vol. 25, p. 12, footnote; 



p. 109. 



1868. Kyphobalaena asphyia (sic) van Beneden, Bull. Acad. Roy. Belg., Bruxelles, ser. 2, vol. 25, p. 117. 

 1868. Kyphobalaena americana van Beneden, Bull. Acad. Roy. Belg., Bruxelles, ser. 2, vol. 25, p.122. 

 1871. Megaptera bcllicosa Cope, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., vol. 12, p. 107. 

 1898. Megaptera novae-angliae Trouessart, Cat. Mamm., fasc. 5, p. 10S5 (quoting Brisson and Gmelin where, 



however, the name is not used in a nomenclatorial sense.) 



History and Nomenclature. 



The Humpback Whale of the North Atlantic was well known to whalers for considerably 

 more than a century before it was studied and named by zoologists. In the middle or latter 

 part of the 17th century it was regularly hunted at the Bermudas, and later, in New England 

 waters. Paul Dudley, in his famous essay of 1725, gave a brief description of it, as one of the 

 five species of whales occurring on the New England coast. The earlier systematists included 



