INDEX. 



Acosta, Joseph de, fable of Indians killing whales, 27, 



31, 35, 37, 41, 42 

 AgaphelicUe, 47 



Agaphelus, 80, 104, 105, 270, 287 

 Agaphelus gibbosus, 47. 56, 104, 105 



measurements of, 106 

 note on, 103 



Agaphelus glaucus, 80, 81. 104 

 Alaska, whales of. 33 

 Aleutian Islands, whales at the, 33 

 Allen, J. A., bibliography of cetology, 62 



list of cetaceans of Massachusetts, 58 

 opinion regarding Balcena cisarctica, 



264 



Amagansett. Long Island, whales sighted off, 63 

 Ambergris, 35 



American cetaceans, first references to, 6 

 American specimens of Balcenoptera physahts, 131 

 American whale fishery, Clark's history of the, 68 



Douglass's remarks on the, 



71 



Felt's notes on the, 72 

 Lanman on the, 76 

 Starbuck's history of the. 68 

 American zoologists, writings of, on whalebone 



whales. 34 

 Anderson, John, resume on whales in northern 



waters. 39 

 Arbavirksoak, 42 

 Arbec, 42 



Arctic .Vegaptera, 98, 99 

 Ashley, George U., 4 

 Atlantic right whale, 23 



Holder's memoir on the, 62 

 Atwood. N. E., notes on cetacea of Massachusetts, 



58 



on the scrag whale, 37 

 Aurivillius, C. W. S., 152 



Baffin. William, first voyage of, 10 



in Wolstenholme Sound, 12 



letter of, to Sir John Wolstenholme, 



10 

 second voyage of, 10 



Baffin Bay, whales of , 6, 10 



Bahama Islands, spermaceti whales at the, 29 



Bahia finner, 103 



Baia de Balienas, whales seen in the, 32 



Balcena, 40, 42, 43, 79, 287 



Balcena, Flower's remarks on, 63 



mentioned by Bonnaterre, 45 

 Brisson, 40 

 Erxleben, 42 



species of, distribution of, 56 

 Van Beneden on the geographical distribu- 

 tion of, 57 



Balcena attncans, 42 

 Balcena antipodarum, 265 

 Balcena antipodum, 266 

 Balcena australis, 50, 63, 263. 265, 266 

 Balcena btscayensts, 15, 39, 55, 57, 60, 244, 262 

 Basque fishery for, 13 

 ribs, Gasco's description of, 257 

 Balcena boops, 41, 46, 51, 61, 243 

 Balcena cisarctica, 3, 55, 56, 57, 60, 63, 78, 79, 263-267 

 description of the type-skeleton 



of, 79 



measurements of the type-skele- 

 ton of, 79 



note by Cope on, 61 

 type-skull of, nasals in, 252 

 Van Beneden's remarks on, 56 

 Balcena gibbosa, 41, 42, 45, 104, 105 

 Balcena glacialis, 23, 39, 45, 68, 244, 266, 270, 297 



American specimens of, in Euro- 

 pean museums, 308 

 chevrons, 256 

 color, 249 



Guldberg's remarks on, 249 

 of American specimens of, 250 

 diagnosis of, 298 



length of American specimensof , 246 

 European specimens of, 



245 



measurements of, 247, 268 

 opinions of cetologists regarding, 



262 

 phalanges, 260 



number of, 261 

 proportions of, 246 

 ribs, 256 



measurements of, 257, 258 

 scapula, 259 



proportions of, 260 

 skeleton, measurements of, 255 

 skull, 251 



length of, 267 

 measurements of, 253 



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