34 A HISTORY OF THE WHALE FISHERIES 



phanes norwegicus are still abundant in 67^ N. 

 Latitude. 



There are only very few records of the appearance 

 of the Humpback in winter. In April and May 

 they are also absent from the Northern Whaling 

 grounds. 



There are few records of the Humpback in the 

 ^uth Atlantic. In the North Pacific it is well 

 \r i^wn to the coastal inhabitants. The chief hunt- 

 ing grounds of the Indians were the Bays of 

 Magdalena, Balena, and Monterey. The visits of 

 the Humpbacks here are regular, in autumn they all 

 leave for the south, and in summer they move 

 northward. 



In Antarctic regions the Humpback appears to be 

 the commonest whale. There are two main groups 

 apparently, the South American, and the South 

 Australian. 



The most recent account of the migrations of the 

 Humpback is that given by Risting 1 and Olsen, 2 

 the former dealing with northern seas, the latter with 

 the conditions off the east and west coasts of South 

 Africa. 



Risting concludes that the Humpback's migra- 

 tions, both north and south of the Equator, are 

 divisible into a feeding migration towards the Polar 

 Seas and a breeding migration into warmer regions. 

 These migrations are so regular that once the 



1 Hval-fangsten i 1912. Bergen, 1013. 



8 Orjan Olsen. See a report in N^twen ^-die Hefte, 1912, 

 Berg-en, 



