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and on the east coast of Australia, in Twofold Bay and Jervis 



Bay. 



18. The following expressions have the meanings respectively as- 

 signed to them, that is to say : 



"baleen whale" means any whale other than a toothed whale; 



"blue whale'- means any whale known by the name of blue 

 whale, Sibbald's rorqual, or sulphur bottom ; 



"fin whale" means any whale known by the name of common 

 finback, common rorqual, finback, finner, fin whale, herring whale, 

 razorback, or true fin whale ; 



"sei whale" means any whale known by the name of Balae- 

 no'pteTa horealis^ sei whale, Rudolphi's rorqual, pollack whale, or 

 coalfish whale, and shall be taken to include Balaenoptera hrydei^ 

 Bryde's whale; 



"gray whale" means any whale known by the name of gray 

 whale, California gray, devil fish, hard head, mussel digger, 

 gray back, rip sack ; 



"humpback whale" means any whale knowTi by the name of 

 bunch, humpback, humpback whale, humpbacked whale, hump 

 whale, or hunchbacked whale ; 



"right whale" means any whale known by the name of Atlantic 

 right whale, Arctic right whale, Biscayan right whale, bowhead, 

 great polar whale, Greenland right whale, Greenland whale, 

 Nordkaper, North Atlantic right whale. North Cape whale. Pa- 

 cific right whale, pigmy right whale, Southern pigmy right 

 whale, or Southern right whale; 



"sperm whale" means any whale known by the name of sperm 

 whale, spermacet whale, cachalot, or pot whale ; 



"Dauhval" means any unclaimed dead whale found floating. 



Whereas the Senate of the United States of America by their Reso- 

 lution of July 2, 1947, two-thirds of the Senators present concurring 

 therein, did advise and consent to the ratification of the said conven- 

 tion ; 



Whereas the said convention was duly ratified by the President of 

 the United States of America on July 18, 1947, in pursuance of the 

 aforesaid advice and consent of the Senate ; 



Whereas it is provided in Article X of the said convention that the 

 convention shall, when instruments of ratification have been desposited 

 by at least six signatory Governments, which shall include the Gov- 

 ernments of the Netherlands, Norway, the Union of Soviet Socialist 

 Republics, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ire- 

 land, and the United States of America, enter into force with respect 

 to those Governments ; 



Whereas instruments of ratification of the said convention were 

 deposited with the Government of the United States of America by 

 the following Governments, namely : the United Kingdom of Great 

 Britain and Northern Ireland on June 17, 1947; the United States of 

 America on July 18, 1947; Australia on December 1, 1947; Norway 

 on March 3, 1948; the Union of South Africa on May 5, 1948; the 



