LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 



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The baleen of a right whale ....... 256 



The white whale, or white porpoise ...... 268 



The posterior part of a white whale 271 



"A big white fellow slipped under only a hundred feet away, 



headed directly for us" ....... 273 



"We beached it in a sandy cove, where the gray rock wall rose 

 in a jagged mass, making a perfect background for the white 

 body, its purity intensified by the bright red streaks of blood 

 which dripped from the bullet holes" ..... 276 



"They are taken with a net of extra heavy twine, about 1,000 feet 

 long, which is placed about 200 yards outside the line of surf 

 and parallel with it" ........ 279 



"Thirty-three porpoises were beached in the haul of the seine 



which provided our specimens" . . . . . .281 



"Immediately after their capture at Hatteras . . . the porpoises 

 were placed for 24 hours in a deep salt water pond, just back 

 of the ocean beach" ........ 285 



"The captive porpoises are very lively, and keep swimming day 



and night, rising to blow usually with each circuit of the pool" 288 



A school of blackfish at Cape Cod 293 



A Pacific blackfish (Globicephalus scammoni) .... 294 

 A skeleton of a finback whale in the American Museum of Nat- 

 ural History 303 



