INDEX. 



323 



Bangs, Outrani, 4 



Barbadoes, whale fishery about the, 61 



Basque whale, 57, 60 



Basque whale fishery, 13, 50, 60 



Fischer's statements regarding 



the, 266 

 Basques, acquaintance of, with the "Grand Bay" 



whale, 12 

 Beaked whale, 46 

 Beard, D. G., 4 

 Bearded whale, 12 

 Beauregard, H., 152 

 Belle Isle, Strait of, 43 



colonial whale fishery in, 70 

 Belon, P., 85 

 Beluga, 14, 36 



Beneden (Van). See Van Beneden. 

 Bering Island, finback observed by Dr. L. Stejneger 



at, 283 

 Bermuda, humpback whale of, 40 



humpback-whale fisher}', 29 

 Verrill's statement regarding whales at, 30 

 whale fishery at, 27, 29 

 whales of, 72 

 Bickford, J. , type of Megaptera osphyia captured 



by, 91 



Biscay whale, 15, 267, 298 

 Blaahval, 171, 173 

 Blaekfish, 44, 54 

 Black whale, 78, 79. 249, 297, 298 



captured in Charleston (S. C.) harbor, 62 

 Blake, J. H., 268 



notes on Balcenoptera acttto-rottrata . \ '.)"> 

 Blue whale, 149, 150, 162 



Cocks's measurements of, 150 



Bocourt's figure of Balcenoptera acuto-roxtrata, 192 

 Boddaert's edition of Linnseus's Sy sterna Naturae, 



American species of whales mentioned in, 41 

 Bolau, H., summaries of natural history and geo- 

 graphical distribution of cetaceans, 63 

 Bonnaterre, Abbe, species of Balii'iia mentioned by, 45 



Tableau Encyclopedique of, 44 



Bonnycastle, Sir Richard, observations on whales of 

 Newfoundland, 53 



linupx, 211 



Boty, Iver, narrative of, 6 

 Bow-head, 5, 39, 42-44 



Bradford's and Winslow's Journal of Plymouth Col- 

 ony, 22 



Brickell's natural history of North Carolina, 37 

 Brimley, H. H., 4 



on right-whale fishery around Beau- 

 fort Inlet, North Carolina, 26 



Brisson, M. J., species of Bahena mentioned by, 40 

 Regne Animal of, American species of 



whales mentioned in, 40 



British Museum, Flower's list of cetacea in the, 62 

 Brookhaven, New York, colonial whaling at, 75 

 Brown, Robert, on Greenland cetacea, 61 



on Greenland finbacks, 189 

 Buckelwal, 61 

 Bull, Captain, 4 



Bunch whale, 37 

 Buzzard's Bay, Mass., 6 



Cabot Steam Whaling Company, 4, 111, 114, 149 

 California finback, 66 

 California gray whale, 54, 66, 80, 287 

 California, gray-whale fishery of, 61 



Jouan's observations on the whales of, 54 

 whales at Monterey, 33 



San Simeon Bay, 68 

 whales off coast of, 67 



Monterey County, 67 

 Santa Barbara County, 66 

 San Luis Obispo County, 66 

 California humpback, 66 

 California ranger, 54 

 California sulphurbottom, 66 

 Californian whaling stations, 62 

 Canada, Gaspe, whales at, 19, 20 



whales of, 20, 44 



Cape Cod, Mass., colonial whale fishery at, 69 

 whales in Barnstable Bay, 22 

 whales of, 22 



Cape Farewell, whales near, 9, 10 

 Cape Ma}-, N. J., whales killed at, 76 

 Cape Sable, whales seen near, 22 

 Cape St. Lucas, whales at, 32 

 Capellini's figures of skull of Balcenoptera acuto-ros- 



trata, 198 



Carolina, Catesby's natural history of, 37 

 Carolinas, Lawson's observations on whales of the, 36 

 Cartier, allusions to cetaceans by, 14 



second voyage of, 14 

 Catesby's natural history of Carolina, 37 

 Caulkins, Frances M., history of New London, Con- 

 necticut, 73 

 Central America, Oviedo's account of whales on 



Pacific coast of, 31 

 Ulloa's reference to whales on Pa- 

 cific coast of, 32 

 Cetacea, geographical distribution of, 207 



remarks regarding species among, 206 

 Champlain, description of whale fishery in New 



France, 17 

 voyages of, 18 

 Charlevoix's history and general description of New 



France, 36 



Clark, A. Howard, history of American whale fish- 

 ery, 68 

 Classification of whales, Anderson's, 39 



Klein's, 38 

 Coat, Captain, remarks on geography of Hudson 



Bay, 13 

 Cocks, A. H., 152 



notes on color of Norwegian hump- 

 backs, 216 

 remarks on length of Balcenoptera. 



tinixcidiis, 150 



statistics of length of Balcenoptera 

 musculus taken at Norwegian sta- 

 tions, 154 

 statistics of length of Megaptera, 213 



