330 



THE WHALEBONE WHALES OF THE WESTERN NORTH ATLANTIC. 



Scammon, C. M., 269 



cetological works of, 58 

 collection of whalebone by, 57 

 description of Balcenoptera velif- 



era, 277 

 diagnosis of Balcenoptera david- 



soni, 58 

 figures of Megaptera versabilis by, 



279 

 Rhachianectes glaucus 



by, 288 

 measurements of a Balcenoptera 



sulfureus, 285 

 Balcenoptera 



velifera, 278 

 Megaptera ver- 

 sabilis, 274 



notes on color of Megaptera versabil- 

 is, 272 



on characters of Balcenoptera sulfu- 

 reus, 284 



Balcenoptera velif- 

 era, 277 



Megaptera versabil- 

 is, 271 



Rhachianectes glau- 

 cus, 288 



on marine mammals of north- 

 west coast of North America, 58, 

 59, 269, 278 

 on the scrag right whale in the 



North Pacific, 38 



on the sulphurbottom of the north- 

 west coast, 90 

 statements regarding Balcenoptera 



davidsoni, 292 

 Scammon's species of whales, 78 



types of, 3 

 Scoresby, Jr., W., 152 



note on the Greenland whale, 189 

 Scrag whale, 37, 38, 41, 49, 71, 80 



Dudley's, 40-42, 45, 49, 104 

 Sharp-nosed whale, 53 

 Sherwood, Geo. H., 4 



Shumagin Islands, Alaska, whales at the, 33 

 Sibbaldius borealis, 90, 284 

 Sibbaldius gigas, 90, 284 

 Sibbaldius laticeps, 81, 87 

 Sibbaldius sulfureus, 48, 78, 90, 270, 284 



original description of, 90 

 Sibbaldius tectirostris, 48, 85, 147, 285 

 characters of, 85 

 Cope's notice of, in " American 



Naturalist," 89 

 identity of, 87 

 type-skeleton of, measurements 



of, 86, 88 

 measurements 

 of the cervi- 

 cal vertebrae 

 of, 89 

 ribs of, 138 



Sibbaldius tectirostris, type-skeleton of. scapula of , 143 



type-specimen of, 85, 132 

 Sibbaldius tuberosus, 48, 81 



identity of, 84 



original description of, 82 



type-specimen of, 81 



account of the 

 capture of 

 the, 82 

 Sletbag, 264 

 Smith, John, allusion to finbacks on coast of Maine, 21 



voyage of, to New England, 21 

 Smith's Sound, whales in, 11 

 Snook's Arm, Newfoundland, list of finbacks taken 



at. 112 

 whaling station at. 



Ill 



Souffleur, 30, 31, 36 

 South American sulphurbottom, 183 

 Southampton, New York, colonial whaling companies 



of, 75 



Species among cetaceans, 3 

 Spermaceti, 36 

 Spermaceti whale, 37 

 Spermaceti whales at Bahama Islands, 29 

 Stafford, Richard, letter on whale fishery at Bermuda, 



28 

 Starbuck. Alex., history of American whale fishery, 



68 



on early fishery laws, 23 

 Steipe-Reydus, 46 

 Stejneger, L., 295 



account of a finback on Bering Island. 



283 



Steller, G. W., observations on whales of Alaska, 33 

 Steypiredr, 58 

 Stone, Witmer, 4 



Strait of Belle Isle, whale fishery in the, 71, 72 

 Struthers, J. , monograph of Megaptera longimana, 



212 

 Sulphurbottom whale, 44, 54, 58, 146, 149. 156, 161, 



297 



diagnosis of, 299 

 South American, 183 

 Sulphurbottom whale of Iceland, 58 

 Sulphurbottom whale of Newfoundland, color of. 162 

 Sulphurbottom whale of Northwest Coast, 78. 90, 



284 

 Systema Natura; of Linnaeus, 1 



Taliaferro, Edwin, whale captured by, 81 



Taliaferro, P. A., account of the capture of the type- 

 specimen of Sibbaldius tuberosus, 81, 82 



Tampon whale, 45 



Thompson, Benj. F., history of Long Island, New 

 York, 74 



Thompson, J. P., description of Balcenoptera acuto- 

 rostrata from Portland, Me., 193 



Thorfinn Karlsefne, Saga of, 6 



Thrasher, 44 



Tikagulik, 51 



