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THE WHALEBONE WHALES OF THE WESTERN NOETH ATLANTIC. 



Cocks, A. H., statistics of Norwegian Balcenoptera 



physalus, 113 

 Collett, Robert, note on Balcenoptera acuto-rostrata, 



192 

 on length of Balcenoptera musculus, 



150 



Colonial shore whale fishery, records of the, 68 

 Common finback, 43, 54, 84, 107, 111, 114, 297 



diagnosis of, 300 

 Connecticut whale fishery, Caulkins's note on, 73 



Williams's article on, 73 

 Cope, E. D., 269 



article on Agaphelus, 81 

 cetological works of, 57, 78 

 description of whalebone of Balcenop- 

 tera sulfur eus, 285 

 diagnosis of Rhachianectes, 288 

 list of cetacea of coasts of North Amer- 

 ica, 81 

 remarks on Balcena cisarctica and bis- 



cayensis, 263 



types of his species of whales, 3, 78 

 Grain, Mrs. W. E., 4 

 Crevecceur, St. John de, letters from an American 



farmer, 214 

 Cullamach whale, 270 

 Cumberland Sound, whales in, 8, 9 

 Cuvier, Frederic, natural history of cetaceans, refer- 

 ences to American species of 

 whales in, 48 



remarks on Dudley's species, 49 

 Cuvier, G., 262 



Ball, Wm. H., 290, 293 



list of North Pacific cetaceans, 59, 



90 

 specimens of Rhachianectes observed 



by, 81 

 Davis, John, first voyage of, to Greenland, 8 



third voyage of, to Greenland, 8, 15 

 Davis Strait, colonial whale fishery in, 70 



whales in, 6, 8, 10 

 DeBry, T.,35 



Delaware bay, Watson's notes on whales in, 76 

 whale fishery in, 26, 76 

 whales in, 24 

 Delphinapterus, 7, 36 

 Delphinidce, 48 

 Devilfish, 287, 292 



De Vries, D. P., on the occurrence of whales in Dela- 

 ware Bay, 24 

 Disko whale, 43 

 Dixon, S. G.,4 

 Douglass, Wm., summary of British settlements in 



North America, 71. 

 Drake's voyage in 1579, 32 

 Drift fish, 23 

 Drift whales, 70, 73 

 Dubar, J., 151 



Dudley, Paul, essay upon natural history of whales, 

 37 



Dudley, Robert, voyage of, to West Indies, 16 

 Dudley's humpback whale, 4, 40-42, 211 



scrag whale, 40-42, 45 

 Duhamel's remarks on bowheads in temperate waters 



of Canada, 44 



remarks on Greenland fishery, 44 

 Du Tetre, J. B., general history of the Antilles, 30, 35 

 remarks on whales among the An- 

 tilles, 30 



remarks on whales at Guadaloupe, 31 

 remarks on whales at Martinique, 31 

 Dwight, Thos., description of a common finback, 60 



Earll, R. Edward, on whale fishery of Maine, 65 

 Easthampton, New York, colonial whaling com- 

 panies of, 75 



Edge, Thomas, voyages of, to Spitzbergen, 11 

 Egede's description of Greenland, 39 

 Elliot, D. G., 4 



Erxleben's Systema Regni Animalis, American spe- 

 cies of whales mentioned in, 42 

 Eschricht, D. F., cetological works of, 49 



remarks on Greenland Balcenoptera 



acuto-rostrata, 206 

 on the identity of the Vaagehval 



and Tikagulik, 51 

 on the species of finbacks, 52 



Eschricht, D. F., and Reinhardt, J., on the Greenland 



right whale, 53 

 discussion of the 

 "Grand Bay 

 whale," 11 



Eschrichtius robustus, 48 

 Eubaliena cisarctica, 47 



Fabricius, Otto, account of Greenland whales, 42 



Fauna Groenlandica, 42 

 Felt, J. B., annals of Salem, Mass., 72 

 Ferrelo's voyage in 1543, 32 

 Finback whale, 24, 37, 40, 42, 44, 46, 49, 54, 65 

 Dudley's, 49 

 at Gloucester, Mass. , 63 

 at Mt. Desert, Me., 64 



Finback whales of Newfoundland, 66, 111, 112 

 of Unalaska, 68 

 of Washington, 67 

 of the West Indies, 30 

 Van Beneden on the geographical 



distribution of, 57 

 Finfish, 39, 40, 41 

 Finne-fiske, 42 



Finner whale of the Oregon coasts, 78, 90 

 Finnfisch, 42 

 Finsch, Otto, 152 

 Fischer, P., 152 



account of Basque whale fishery, 13 



on the Basque whale, Balcena biscayen- 



sis, 60 



opinion regarding Megaptera bellicosa, 

 243 



