CONTENTS 



CHAPTER XXIII 



HUNTING WHITE WHALES IN THE ST. LAWRENCE 

 RIVER 



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Porpoises and dolphins Hunting white whales in the 



St. Lawrence River 267 



CHAPTER XXIV 

 THE BOTTLENOSE PORPOISE IN CAPTIVITY 



A bottlenose porpoise fishery at Cape Hatteras "The 



Porpoise in Captivity," by Dr. Charles H. Townsend 278 



CHAPTER XXV 



THE BLACKFISH 



An exciting blackfish hunt in the Faroe Islands Habits 291 



CHAPTER XXVI 

 THE PASSING OF THE WHALE 



The commercial extermination of the right whale Cap- 

 ture of the bowhead "Whaling in Newfoundland," 

 by Dr. F. A. Lucas The American Pacific coast 

 Sub-Antarctic whaling Japan Needed legislation 296 



APPENDIX 



Classification of the Cetacea Diagnoses of the whales 

 described in this book The skeleton of the Cetacea 

 Adaptation as shown by the Cetacea .... 307 



INDEX 323 



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