134 THE ZOOLOGIST. 
ADDITIONAL NOTES ON THE FINWHALE FISHERY ON 
THE NORTH EUROPEAN COAST. 
By Atrren Heneace Cocks, M.A., F.Z.S. 
Towarps the end of last summer (1884) I again visited some 
of the Finmarken whaling establishments, some account of which 
I have already given.* The season was rather an early one, and 
was virtually over before my arrival. The first whale I saw was 
a very unexpected sight; on my passage from England, when 
near the head of Christiania Fjord, only about six English miles 
from Christiania itself, at about 8 a.m. on July 28th, we passed 
a White Whale. As it repeatedly came to the surface to blow, 
swimming in its characteristic active manner, we obtained very 
good views of it; it appeared to be a full-grown example. Herr 
Collett afterwards informed me that it was seen several times in 
the Fjord; on the same day that we saw it, it was mentioned in 
the newspapers as having been seen at Fredrikstad, and the last 
occasion on which Herr Collett had news of it was as seen at 
Holmestrand on August 13th. He also informed me that a 
White Whale had been seen in Christiania Fjord during the 
previous summer as well. 
Whales were conspicuous by their absence on the passage 
north from Throndhjem. When approaching the Lofotens, on 
August 2nd, there were a few small Delphinide, probably Por- 
poises—two or three being perhaps large enough for Dolphins; 
and the next day, while still among the islands (near Kjeé), after 
seeing a few more Porpoises or small Dolphins, we passed two 
small whales in company, each between thirty and forty feet in 
length; to the best of my belief they were of different species, 
one apparently a Humpback, the other a Rorqual (not B. 
sibbaldii, I think). On afterwards mentioning this to the 
foreman of one of the Vardo factories, he said it was quite 
likely that I should have seen two whales of different species in 
company, as he had himself, on the last day of July (1884), seen 
a male Common Rorqual pairing with a female Humpback. 
I give this statement of course on his authority; but he isa man 
as little likely to be mistaken on such a point as anyone, and I 
am quite sure it was made bond /ide. 
* See ‘ Zoologist,’ 1884, pp. 366, 417, 455. 
