THE WHALEBONE WHALES OF THE WESTERN NORTH ATLANTIC. 



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These measurements reduced to percentages of the total length, and accom- 

 panied by similar ones for European specimens, including the type of M. longimana 

 Rudolphi, are given in the following table: 



MEOAPTERA NODOSA (BONNATERRE). EUROPEAN AND AMERICAN. 



NOTE. Rawitz's measurements of four specimens observed by him at Bear Island, Norway, reduced to percentages 

 of the total length, are as follows : 



i. $ 2. 4 3. $ 4. (?) 



Total length 46' 5" 41' 4" 40' 8" 34' I " 



Tip of lower jaw to corner of mouth 29.7 % 



Length of pectoral from head of humerus . . . 35.355 

 Height of dorsal 2. 1 % 



3'- 755 



32.3? 



23.0 % 

 35-7* 



1 Danish measure. 



2 Straight, from lower jaw. 



3 From figure. 



4 Approximate. 



b Rheinland measure. 

 ' From upper jaw. 



7 From measurements given on a photograph and in pamphlet " Story 

 of the Whale." 



8 From " Story of the Whale," to shoulder. Struthers gives 34.2 %. 



9 " Story of the Whale" gives [7i.3#]. 



10 Cannot account for this small measurement. 



11 To head of humerus. 



