WHALE HUNTING WITH GUN AND CAMERA 



dently the calf of the first, was killed at Wainscott, 

 Long Island. This skeleton was also secured, and 

 was eventually sent to London, while the Amagansett 

 whale with its baleen remains in the Museum to be 

 mounted in the Hall of Water Mammals. Just a 



The baleen of a right whale. This specimen had whalebone eight 

 feet long. 



year later another right whale, a twenty-eight-foot 

 calf, was killed at Amagansett, but its carcass was lost 

 in a storm. 



As yet it is impossible to say with authority just 

 how many species of right whales exist. Some years 

 ago Lieutenant Maury, after studying the daily logs of 

 hundreds of whaling vessels, prepared a chart which 

 appears to show that the animals do not cross the 



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