320 Bulletin American Museum of Natural History. [Vol. XXIV, 



V. EXTERNAL AND OSTEOLOGICAL CHARACTERS. 



Thanks to the valuable contributions of Cope (1865), Holder (1883), 

 True (1904), and Andrews (1908), the external and osteological characters 

 of the Right Whale of the Atlantic coast of North America, are now well 

 known better even than those of its representative on the Atlantic coast 

 of Europe, as made known by Capellini, Gasco, and Graells, on the basis 

 of three immature specimens captured, respectively, at San Sebastian and 

 Guittare, Spain, and in the Bay of Taranto, Italy. Guldberg has also de- 

 scribed both young and adult specimens from Iceland. 



Ten skeletons of American specimens are preserved in American Mu- 

 seums (and none elsewhere 1 ), of six of which Mr. True was able to give notes 

 and measurements in 1904. There is still another in the Museum of Com- 

 parative Zoology at Harvard University, here for the first time described, 

 and the two recently acquired by this Museum. External measurements 

 of three others, of which no part appears to have been preserved, are also 

 given by Mr. True. The present location, place and date of capture, of 

 these skeletons is as follows, in geographic sequence from north to south. 



Skeletons in Museums. 



Provincetown, Mass. April, 1864 Mus. Comp. Zoology, Cambridge, Mass. 



Long Island, N. Y. Field Mus., Chicago, 111. 



Amagansett, L. I., N. Y. 1888 U. S. Nat. Mus., Washington, D. C. 



Long Island, N. Y. 1875 ? Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., New York. 



Amagansett, L. I., N. Y. Feb. 22, 1907 



II it ' il II U U II II U U II II 



Delaware Bay. 1862 Mus. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, Pa. 



Beaufort, N. C. 1874 State Mus., Raleigh, N. C. 



Cape Lookouf, N. C. Feb. 15, 1898 Mus. University of Iowa. 2 



Charleston, S. C. Jan. 7, 1880 Charleston College Mus., Charleston, S. C. 



The two Long Island specimens recently acquired by this Museum have 

 already been sufficiently described (antea, pp. 171-182, figs. 1-6), so that it 

 remains merely to add some account of the Provincetown specimen, with 

 illustrations 3 of some of the more important parts of the skeleton, and to 

 briefly summarize the external characters as made known by other writers. 



1 Since this was written the younger of the two Long Island specimens, secured by this 

 Museum in 1907, has been sent to the University Museum, Cambridge, England, in exchange for 

 other material. 



2 Not " Wise. Acad. Sci." (which has no Museum), as given by True, ' Whalebone Whales,' 

 etc., p. 246. 



3 These illustrations are reproduced from unpublished lithographic plates made by T. 

 Sinclair & Son, Philadelphia, in 1881, for a monograph of the North American Cetacea then in 

 course of preparation by the writer for the United States Geological Survey of the Territories, 

 under the late Dr. F. V. Hayden, Director, as already explained (antea, p. 280). They 

 are published here with the kind approval of the Hon. James R. Garfield, Secretary of the 

 Department of the Interior. The drawings were made under my supervision by the well-known 



