LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. 



Plate I.* Fig. 1. The Sperm Whale, Physeter macrocephalus, Lin. - Found everywhere 

 in the warmer seas. 



Fig. 2. The California Gray Whale, Ehachianectes glaucus Cope. Arctic Seas 

 to Lower California. 



Fig. 3. The North Pacific Hump-hack, Megaptera versabilis Cope. Arctic Seas 

 to Lower California. 

 Plate II. Fig. 4. The Sulphur-bottom, Sibbaldius sulfureus Cope. Arctic Seas to Cal- 

 ifornia. 



Fig. 5. The Finback, or Oregon Finner, BaJccnoptera vellfera Cope. Arctic 

 Seas to California. 



Fig. 6. The Pacific Right-whale, Balcena sieboldii, var. japonica Gray. Arc- 

 tic, Bering, and Ochotsk Seas. Lower California. Japan ? 



Fig. 7. The Bow-head, or Great Polar Whale, Balcena mysticelus Lin. Ber- 

 ing, Ochotsk, and Arctic Seas. 



*The figures of whales and of apparatus used in the whale-fisheries are taken from 

 the important and remarkably interesting volume entitled " The Marine Mammals of 

 the Northwestern Coast of North America described and illustrated ; together with an 

 account of the American Whale-Fishery." By Charles M. Scammon, Captain United 

 States Revenue Marine. San Francisco : John H. Carmany & Co. New York : G. P. 

 Putnam & Sons. 1874. 4to. 27 plates. 

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