INDEX. 



331 



Tobago Id., whale fishery at, 61 



Torqueniada's account of Viscaino's voyages to Lower 



California, 32 

 Townsend, Chas. H., 275, 290, 294 



on California gray whale, 



RliucMunectes glaucus, 65 

 Trumpo, 28 

 Tunnolik, 58, 146, 189 

 Turner, Sir Wm., 152 



figure of Balcenoptera acuto-ros- 



trata by, 196 

 on length of Longniddry whale, 



152, 155 

 Turton's translation of Linnseus's Systema Naturae, 



American species of whales mentioned in, 41 

 Types of Cope's and Scaramon's species, 3 



Ulloa, Francis, on whales in the Gulf of California, 



32 



Unalaska, finback whales at, 68 

 United States Fish Commission, 193 



reports and bulletins 

 of, 63, 65 



Vaagehval, 51, 201 



Van Beneden, P.-J., 3, 151, 152 



cetological writings of, 54 

 comments on whales of west 



coast of North America, 57 

 comparison of skeletons of 



humpback whales, 54 

 natural history of cetaceans of 



seas of Europe, 54 

 on Balcenoptera davidsoni, 296 

 on Balcenoptera sulfureiis, 286 

 on Balcenoptera velifera, 284 

 on geographical distribution of 



Balcena and Megaptera, 57 

 on geographical distribution of 



finbacks, 57 

 on geographical distribution of 



right whales, 55 

 on right whales on Atlantic coast 



of United States, 57 

 on the affinities of Rhachian- 



ectes, 292 



remarks on Balcena cisarctica, 

 56 



Balcena cisarctica 

 and bifscayensis, 

 55, 263, 264 

 right whale taken 

 in Charleston 

 harbor, 57 

 remarks on size of Megaptera, 



214 



summary of osteological charac- 

 ters of Balcenoptera miisculus, 

 181 



Van Beneden, P.-J., and Gervais, P., osteography of 



cetacea, 55 



Van Beneden, P.-J., and Gervais, P., remarks re- 

 garding Me- 

 gaptera ox- 

 phyia and 

 boops, 243 



Van Breda, J. G. S., 151 



Van der Donck, A., description of the New Nether- 

 lands, 23, 26 



note on whale fishery in Dela- 

 ware Bay, 26 

 Variation, individual, 3 



Verrill, A. E., statement regarding whales at Ber- 

 muda, 30 

 Vinvisch, 41 



Viscaino's note on whales at Monterey, California, 33 

 Viscaino's voyages along coast of Lower California, 32 

 Viscaino's and Aguilar's voyage in 1603, 32 



Ward, F. A., 4 



Washington, whales off Cape Flattery, 67 



whales off Quillihute River, 67 

 Watson, John F., annals of Philadelphia, 76 

 Way mouth, description of Indians' manner of killing 



whales, 20 

 Weeden, Wm. B. , on colonial whale fishery of New 



England, 75 



West Coast whales, specimens of, 269 

 West Indies, Du Tetre's remarks on whales at the, 31 

 humpback-whale fishery in the, 61 

 whales of the, 30 



Whalebone whales, American specimens of, in Euro- 

 pean museums, 308 

 first authentic notice of, on east 



coast of North America, 14 

 nomenclature of the, 1 

 Whale fishery, American, Douglass's remarks on the, 



71 



Felt's notes on the, 72 

 history of the, 68 

 Lanman on the, 76 

 Basque, 60 



on Newfoundland banks, 60 

 colonial, of Long Island, New York, 73 

 of New England, 75 

 of New York, 73, 74 

 records of the, 68 

 Douglass's remarks on the American, 



71 



Lindeman on the, 59 

 North Pacific gray whale, 59 

 North Pacific humpback whale, 59 

 North Pacific right whale, 59 

 of Bermuda, 27-29 

 of Carolina, 44 

 of Davis Strait, 70 

 of Delaware Bay, 24, 26, 76 

 of Gulf of St. Lawrence, 16, 59, 70, 72 

 of Maine, 64, 65 

 of New England, 44 

 of Newfoundland, 2, 70 

 of New France, Champlain's descrip- 

 tion of, 17 



