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region, and the few that still remain may in time increase. 

 Dr. R. M. Anderson (1935) has reported one that was driven 

 by killer whales into an ice lead near Pond Inlet in 1922 and 

 shot by a native; and two were reported to him as seen near 

 Kingua, Cumberland Sound, in 1928. The population center- 

 ing in Baffin Bay must, however, be reduced to very small 

 numbers. Nevertheless bowheads still come into the northern 

 part of Hudson Bay annually, though probably not now do 

 they go so far south as formerly, when they were found at 

 least to Churchill. Dr. Sutton and Dr. Hamilton (1932) in 

 their report on mammals of Southampton at the north end of 

 Hudson Bay record a number of bowheads seen or killed : two 

 in November, 1924; one in 1926; five seen and one killed in 

 October, 1926; a young one seen by Eskimos in 1927; a large 

 one killed at Seahorse Point, September 17, 1928; in 1929 a 

 large one killed near Leyson Point, and half a dozen were seen 

 together on September 25. Since the killing of these whales 

 (as being "right whales") was abandoned by the Norwegian 

 whalers in 1929, and is prohibited by the International Agree- 

 ment for the Regulation of Whaling of 1937, they are likely to 

 have a long respite except for the occasional killing of one by 

 Eskimos, so that the gradual recuperation of the stock is to be 

 looked for. There are small numbers left in the western Arctic 

 Ocean, which may be expected to increase, as noted by Dr. 

 Anderson. Indeed, in a recent note, F. Rainey (1940) has 

 given a graphic account of the pursuit and capture of bowheads 

 off Point Hope, Alaska, by the local Eskimos using a hand 

 harpoon with a bomb in its "nose" as well as an old model 

 "shoulder gun." The season lasts there from early April until 

 June 10. He adds, exuberantly, "There are scores of them, 

 all bowhead . . . The number is simply unbelievable. 

 We have seen at least 20 every day. " Evidently the stock is 

 responding well to the reduced persecution. 



