INDEX. 



32V 



Martens, F., 262 



Martha's Vineyard, bones of whales at, 20 



whales killed at, 70 

 Martinique, whales about, 80 

 Maryland, Assateague beach, whales driven on shore 



at, 76 

 Massachusetts, bones of whales found at Martha's 



Vineyard, 20 

 cetaceans of, 58 



finback whale at Gloucester, 63 

 whales at Cape Cod, 71, 72, 82 

 at Duxbury, 72 

 at Gloucester, 64 

 at Nantucket, 21 

 at Plymouth, 65 

 Young's note on whales at Cape Cod, 



72 



Massachusetts Historical Society, collections of, ref- 

 erences to whale fishery in, 72 

 Mather, Richard, voyage to New England in 1635, 



23 



Measurements, system of, 4 

 Megaptera, 82, 91, 211 



American specimens of, 212 

 Flower's remarks on species of, 63 

 length of specimens of, at Norwegian 



whaling stations, 213 



Van Beneden on the geographical distri- 

 bution of, 57 



Megaptera from Greenland in European museums, 55 

 Megaptera americaita, 48, 60, 241 

 Megaptera bellicona, 60, 97, 102, 103, 232, 239, 241, 242 

 note on, by J. E. Gray, 48 

 remarks on the original descrip- 



of, 97 



type-skeleton of, 97, 212, 233, 

 236, 240, 242 



measurements 



of the, 100 

 notes on the, 101 

 Megaptera loops, 63 

 Megaptera brasiliensis, 103 



note on, 102 



Megaptera kuzira, 102, 276 

 Megaptera lalandii, 102 

 Megaptera longimana, 48, 52, 55, 60, 92, 98, 99, 102, 



241, 242, 276 

 type-specimen of, 236 



Megaptera nodosa, 211, 241, 270, 272, 276, 297 

 abdominal ridges, 224 

 American specimens of, in Euro- 

 pean museums, 308 

 at Bermuda, large specimens of, 



214 



caudal peduncle, 230 

 chevrons, 235 

 color, 216, 218, 221 



at Snook's Arm Station, 



Newfoundland, 218 

 Cocks's notes on, 216 

 in Greenland specimens, 

 220 



Megaptera nodosa, color in Iceland specimens, 220 

 Rawitz's notes on, 217 

 Rawitz's theory of, 221 

 Sars's notes on, 217 

 Struthers's notes on, 217 

 dermal tubercles, 225 

 diagnosis of, 298 

 dorsal fin, 226 



comparison of, in 

 American and Euro- 

 pean specimens, 228 

 Sars's description of, 



227 



eye, 230 

 flukes, 230 

 length of specimens of, at Balena 



Station, Newfoundland, 213 

 length of specimens of, at Snook's 



Arm, Newfoundland, 212 

 measurements of, 223 

 measurements of Newfoundland 



specimens of, 222 

 pectoral fins, 228 



length of, 229 

 shape of, 228 

 phalanges, 238 

 radius and ulna, 236 



measurements of, 



238 



ribs, 240 

 scapula, 235, 237 



measurements of, 235 

 proportions of, 236 

 size, 212 

 skeleton, 232 



measurements of, 234 

 skull, 233 



measurements of, 233 

 statistics of length of, 216 

 sternum, 239, 240 

 summary of discussion of, 240 

 vertebrae, 234 

 vertebral formula, 232 

 whalebone, 230 

 Megaptera osphyia, 48, 82. 91, 98, 102, 232, 239, 241, 



285 



characters of, 241 

 notes on, 94 

 notes on the original description 



of, 92 



type-skeleton of, measurements 



of, 94, 96 



notes on, 95 



type-specimen of, 4, 91, 212, 233, 



236, 241 

 Megaptera vermibilis, 48, 78, 102. 270 



characters of, furnished by 



Scammon, 271 

 color of, notes by Scammon 



comparison of, with Megaptera 

 nodosa, 272 



