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ALLEN: NEW ENGLAND WHALEBONE WHALES. 



all " instead of from tip of upper jaw to notch of flukes. An 88-foot specimen recorded in the 

 Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society as taken at Bermuda in 1665 must have been 

 a very extraordinary animal if the account can be accepted, but the evidence of later investi- 

 gations is rather against it. I am unable to add to the recorded measurements of the species. 

 True (1904, p. 222) gives the following measurements of a Newfoundland female. 



External Measurements of a Humpback Whale. 



True also gives the proportions in percentages of total length of a female specimen taken 

 at Cape Cod, Mass., and now in the U. S. National Museum. These proportions are of a 

 younger female and are of interest in comparison with the adult and larger animal from New- 

 foundland, the measurements of which I have copied above. Following are these percentages 

 for the two specimens as given by True. 



