1908.] Allen, Th< Xortli Atlantic Rl.jht While. 303 



of the European seas, 1 recorded the capture of a specimen of the Basque 

 Whale on the coast of Spain, between Guettaria and Zaraux, February 3, 

 1878. 



Graells, 1889. In 1889 appeared an important paper by M. P. Graells, 

 on the whales of the Atlantic coast of Spain, 2 which contains much new 

 matter of historical interest relating to "Balaena biscayensis Eschricht," to 

 which the paper mainly relates. It contains measurements and figures of 

 the Guettaria specimen, mentioned above, -now for the first time described. 

 The figures accompanying this paper are not only inartistic, but the author 

 states that they are inaccurate, which may explain the discrepancies be- 

 tween them and Gasco's based on photographs. 3 



Jouan, 1890. In 1890, Henri Jouan published an account of the 

 whales, seen or captured on the coast of France, 4 which contains a list of the 

 occurrences of the Basque Whale on the French and neighboring coasts for 

 about two centuries. These are: (1) an adult female, stranded or captured 

 on Isle de Re in 1680, not preserved but measurements were taken and 

 made available by Fischer in 1881 (republished from Segnette); (2) a female 

 and young in the harbor of San Sebastian, Jan. 14, 1854 the young one 

 captured and its skeleton later transferred to Copenhagen and studied by 

 Eschricht, but first fully described by Gasco in 1879; (3) a specimen re- 

 ported as taken at San Sebastian Jan. 11, 1878; (4) a young female taken 

 near Taranto, in the Mediterranean, Feb. 9, 1877, the skeleton of which 

 was preserved, and described by Capallini as Balcena tarentina, and rede- 

 scribed later by Gasco and referred by him to B. biscayensis ; (5) a specimen 

 embayed early in November, 1881, near Fontarabie, in the western end of 

 the Mediterranean, and though attacked by fishermen finally escaped to 

 the open sea; (6) a specimen, supposed to represent this species, seen but 

 not taken, Dec. 24, 1887, near San Sebastian; (7) two seen and one taken 

 by fishermen near Algiers, in the western part of the Mediterranean, in 

 February or March, 1888; to which should apparently be added (8) the 

 Guettaria specimen, taken Feb. 3, 1878, and its skeleton preserved in a 

 museum at San Sebastian and described by Graells in 1889. These eight 

 supposed instances resulted in the preservation of three skeletons and the 

 external measurements of another specimen. 



Ridewood, on the structure of the 'Bonnet,' 1901. A paper by W. G. 

 Ridewood, published in 1901, 5 on the structure and origin of the 'bonnet* 



1 Les Ctacs des Mers d'Europe. Bull. Acad. roy. de Belgique, 3e s6r., X, 1885, pp. 707- 

 732. 



2 Las Ballenas en las Costas oceanicas de Espana. Mem. Real. Acad. de Cienc. de Madrid, 

 XIII, pt. 3, 1889. pp. 1-115, pll. i-ix. 



3 Cf. True Whalebone Whales of the Western North Atlantic, p. 252. 



4 Apparition des Ce'tace's sur les cotes de France. Bull. Soc. Linn, de Normandie, 4e se"r., 

 IV, 1890, pp. 137-164. 



6 On the Structure of the Horny Excrescence, known as the "Bonnet," of the Southern 

 Right Whale (Balcena australis). Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1901, pp. 44-47, pi. vi. 



