148 THE WHALEBONE WHALES OF THE WESTERN NORTH ATLANTIC. 



In the work previously cited (8, 171), Van Beneden and Gervais seem to 

 regard the species described by Holbbll under the Eskimo name Kipar~karnak as 

 probably representing this species, but Eschricht was in doubt as to this, and cer- 

 tainly Holboll's description is not favorable to this view. It is in part as follows : 



" Above on the head it had many rows of high tubercles of rounded form, 3 to 

 4 in. broad, and perhaps as high. They were located at equal distances from each 

 other ; hence, in rows. . . . The furrows on the neck and breast reach about 

 as far back as in B. longimana \_Megapterd\, but stand much wider apart. The 

 pectorals, which must be regarded as long, were, however, shorter than in B. 

 longimana. They are quite narrow, and have some irregular emarginations, one 

 large emargination is to be seen about in the middle. . . . The color is 

 whale, black on the back and on the sides, white on the belly ; the underside of 

 the pectorals and flukes white, on the latter with a black band." (37, 197.) 



It is clear, I think, that this was a Humpback and not a Finback whale. Es- 

 chricht states that Holboll saw this whale only from the deck of a vessel, and asks 

 very pertinently how he knew that it was the same as the Kiporlcarnak of the Es- 

 kimos. Fabricius, doubtless, employed this native name correctly, and certainly 

 for a very different animal from that described by Holboll, as above. 



