INDEX. 



329 



Pacific Coast, whales of the, 31 

 Pacific Ocean, humpback whale of, 273 



Jouan's observations on the whales of 



the, 54 



Palliser, Hugh, 70 



Parkhurst, Anthony, letter to Hakluyt, 15 

 Pechuel-Loesche, M. E. , on Balcenoptera sulfureus, 287 



on whale fishery, 59 



Penn, Wm., on whales in Delaware Bay, 26 

 Pflockfisch, 40-42 

 PhyxalicUe, 48 

 Physalus antiquorum, 48 

 Physalus brasiliensis, 102, 103 

 Physalus latirostris, 178 

 Pike-headed finner, 53 

 Pike whale near Newfoundland, 66 

 Pollack whale, 297 



diagnosis of, 300 

 Porpoises, 44, 65 



Portland Society of Natural History, 193 

 Prentiss, D. W., 152 



Eawitz's notes on color of humpback, 221 



Reeks, Henry, articles on zoology of Newfoundland, 



60 



Reinhardt, J. , figure of skull of Balcenoptera mus- 

 culus by, 183 

 on the sulphurbottom of Iceland, 



58 

 opinions regarding Balcena cisarctica 



and biscayensis, 264 

 Rhachianectes, 80, 81, 105, 270 



diagnosis of, by Cope, 287 



Van Beneden's opinion regarding the 



affinities of, 292 

 Rhachianectes glaums, 47, 56, 65, 80, 287 



American specimens of, in 



European museums, 309 

 characters of, furnished by 



Scammon, 288 

 figures of, by C. H. Townsend, 



289 



by Scammon, 288 

 measurements of, 290 

 original description of, 80 

 pectorals, 292 

 size, 289 

 skeleton, 290 

 skull, 291 



measurements of, 291 

 specimens of, 290 

 sternum, 292 

 vertebrae, 292 

 vertebral formula, 291 

 whalebone, 287, 289, 290 

 Right whale, 24, 29, 37, 38, 43, 54, 60, 68 

 Right whale captured in Charleston harbor, Van 



Beneden's remarks on, 57 

 Right whale of the Atlantic, 267 

 Right whale of the North Atlantic, 244 



diagnosis of, 298 



Right whale of the North Pacific, 59 

 Right whale of the Northwestern Coast, 270 

 Right-whale fishery of North Pacific, 59 

 Right whales, 19 



Right whales, Atlantic, Holder's memoir on, 62 

 geographical distribution of, 55, 59 

 on Atlantic coast, Van Beneden's note 



on, 57 

 opinions of cetologists regarding North 



Atlantic species of, 262 

 Rios y Rial, Professor, 260 

 Rissmuller, L., 4 

 Rochefort, C. de, natural history of the Antilles, 30, 



35 

 on whales and other monsters of the 



sea, 30 



Rondelet, G., 34, 35 

 Rorqual, 46, 49 

 Rorqualus antarcticus, 49 

 Rorqualus boops, 49 

 Rorqualus musculus, 49 



Rutgers College, scapula of Balcena glacialis in the 

 museum of, 260 



Sagard-Theodat, G., observations of, on whales of 



Gulf of St. Lawrence, 19 



St. Lawrence, Gulf of, colonial whale fishery in, 72 

 Duhamel's references to bow- 

 heads in, 44 

 fisheries of, 54 

 Lescarbot's description of 



whale fishery in, 16 

 Sagard-Theodat's observations 



on whales in, 19 

 voyage of the Grace of Bris- 



toll to, 16 



whale fishery in, 59, 60, 70 

 whales in, 13, 66 

 St. Lawrence River, Charlevoix on whales found in, 



36 



sulphurbottom of, 44 

 whales in, 14, 36 



Santa Lucia Id., whale fishery at, 61 

 Sarda, 12 



Sardaco Baleac, 266 

 Sarde, 56, 267 

 Sars, G. O., 152 



description of abdominal furrows of Ba- 

 lcenoptera physalus, 129 

 color of Balcenoptera mus- 

 culus, 161 

 Balcenoptera phys- 

 alus, 120 

 dorsal fin of Balcenoptera 



mitsculns, 171 

 dorsal fin of Norwegian 



humpback, 227 

 pectoral fins of Baloenop- 



tei-a musculus, 173 

 diagnosis of Balcenoptera acuto-rostrata- 



192 

 Balcenoptera musculics, 149 



