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THE WHALEBONE WHALES OF THE WESTERN NORTH ATLANTIC. 



Megaptera versabilis, measurements of, by Scam- 



mon, 271, 274 



measurements of, compared 

 witli those of Megaptera no- 

 dosa, 275 



original description of, 102 

 pectorals, 275 

 Scammon's figures of, 279 

 skeleton of, from Washington, 



276 



tubercles, 275 

 whalebone, 276 

 Megapteridce, 48 

 Miller, Jr., G. S., 295 

 Mobjack Bay, Virginia, 84 

 Moller, H. P. C., description of Balcenoptera muscu- 



lus in Greenland, 189 

 Mflller, O. F., Prodromus of Zoology of Denmark, 



Greenland whales mentioned in, 42 

 Muller, P. L. S., annotated edition of Linnseus's 

 Systema Naturae, American species of whales 

 mentioned in, 41 

 Myers, A. H., 193 



Nantucket, whales at, 21 

 Narwhal, 35 



Natural histories of the seventeenth century, 34 

 eighteenth century, 35 

 nineteenth century, 46 

 Nieuw Engelandsche Penvisch, 41 

 New England coast, whales of the, 20, 37, 64 

 New England, colonial whale fishery of, 75 

 New England finback, 71 

 New England humpback, 71 

 New England right whale, 71 

 Newfoundland, Balena Station, length of Megaptera 



at, 213 

 Bonnycastle's observations on the 



whales of, 53 

 humpback whales of, 44 

 length of specimens of Megaptera no- 



dosa at Snook's Arm, 213 

 list of specimens of Balcenoptera 

 museulus taken at Balena Station, 

 1901, 153 



measurements of Balcenoptera mus- 

 eulus at Balena Station, 157 

 Reeks's article on zoology of, 60 

 Sir Humphrey Gilbert's voyage to, 



16 



whale fishery at, 2, 70, 111 

 whales observed about, 11, 13, 66 

 Newfoundland and Norwegian specimens of Balve- 

 noptera museulus, comparative measurements of, 

 159, 160 



Newfoundland finbacks, 66, 111, 112 

 Newfoundland humpback, 66, 111, 273 

 Newfoundland specimens of, common finback, 84 



Megaptera nodosa, 



measurements of, 222 

 Newfoundland sulphurbottom, color of, 162 



dorsal fin of, 172 



Newfoundland whale fishery of the sixteenth and 



seventeenth centuries, 12 

 Newfoundland whaling stations, 4 

 New Jersey, Cape May, whales killed at, 76 



Watson's notes on whales on coast of, 76 

 whale fishing on coast of, 76 

 New London County Historical Society, 73 

 New York, colonial whale fishery of, 73, 74 

 Hudson River, whales in, 23 

 Long Island, colonial whaling at, 75 



whale captured in Peeonic 



Bay, 73 



whales at, 24, 75 



Thompson's history of Long Island, 74 

 New York Bay, whales in, 23 

 Niagara Falls Museum, 4 

 Nielsen, A., 4 

 Nieremberg, J. E., 35 

 Nordcaper, 39, 41, 42, 44, 45, 49, 53, 56, 249, 250, 263, 



264, 298 



North American whalebone whales, chronological 

 account of contributions to the natural history 

 of, 34 

 North Atlantic right whale, 244 



diagnosis of the, 298 

 North Carolina, Beaufort, partial skeleton of Balcena 



glacialis found at, 260 

 Brickell's natural history of, 37 

 whale fishery on coast of, 26 

 North Pacific, humpback of the, 78, 102 



Pechuel's observations on whales of 



the, 60 



right whale of the, 59 

 North Pacific whales, comparison of, with those of 



the North Atlantic, 270 

 Dall's list of, 59 

 observations on, 269 

 specimens of, 269 



Norwegian and Newfoundland specimens of Balfc- 

 noptera miisciilns, comparative measurements 

 of, 159, 160 



Norwegian Balcenoptem pln/salus, size of, 113 

 Norwood, Richard, observations on whales at Ber- 

 muda, 28 

 Notre Dame Bay, Newfoundland, whales taken in, 



111 

 Nyenhuis, J. T. B. , 151 



O'Callaghan's documents relating to colonial history 



of State of New York, 73 

 Ocean City (N. J.) whale, 179, 182, 183, 189 



measurements of, 184 

 nasal bones, 184 

 phalanges, 188 

 ribs, 185 

 scapula, 186 

 Oregon, whales on the coast of, mentioned by Lewis 



and Clark, 47 

 Ostend whale, 151, 152, 158, 190 



scapula of, 187 



Oviedo, on whales of Pacific coast of Central America, 

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